Culled from Punch: Two weeks
after his son flew from Benin City to Lagos in the wheel compartment of an
aircraft belonging to Arik Air, Daniel Ohikhena’s father denies claims that he
abandoned his family, writes JAMES AZANIA
His
schoolmates at Ogbe Junior Secondary School in the Edo State capital know
little about Daniel Ohikhena, the 13-year-old stowaway who flew from Benin City
to Lagos in the wheel compartment of a plane belonging to Arik Air.
Shortly
before his celebrated escapade, Daniel’s mother, Mrs. Evelyn Ohikhena, had
withdrawn him from a private secondary school for want of money to pay his
tuition fees. She had enrolled him in OJSS, which was about 500 metres from her
residence.
