The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN, acknowledged.on Sunday it has unravelled port rats behind the disappearance of passengers' baggage on the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, Nigeria.
FAAN acknowledged.the thriller was lifted after the arrest of a member of the gang perpetuating the act, Mr Okereobode Chinwendu.
The 38-year outdated suspect was acknowledged.to have been caught within the act on the 2nd of September, 2013.
The company acknowledged.after the pilfering on the nation's primary airport generated plenty of controversy lately, the Crime and Investigation unit of FAAN's Aviation Security Service (AVSEC) was placed on the alert and an investigation was opened.
"The investigation obtained a serious lead when AVSEC officers acquired a report of pilferage from Emirate Airlines on its flight of July 19, 2013 and CIB officers launched into an inspection of the photograph footage from the plane's bulk maintain's closed circuit tv (CCTV) exhibiting the reported pilfering in progress."
"The suspect, Mr. Okere, a worker of Check Port Security (the official airline safety firm of Emirate Airlines) was recognized within the footage, and apprehended. He later confessed to giving Mr. Oriola Afeez, a NAHCO employeeswho continues to be at massive as at press timethe permission to go forward with pilfering on the parked plane, whereas Okeke gave him safety contained in the plane bulk maintain," acknowledged.Yakubu Dati, FAAN's picture maker.
Dati acknowledged.the wrongdoer confessed to aiding and abetting the NAHCO employees in eradicating an I-pad pc and different precious gadgets belonging to passengers which had been bought and proceeds from the sale, within the sum of eight thousand naira, was given to him.
"This discovery has confirmed that pilfering gangs are primarily cargo dealing with brokers and airline safety officers who've been working from inside parked plane, opposite to the incorrect assumption that pilfering was performed inside terminal," Dati acknowledged.