Police authorities said on Thursday that they had arrested a suspect in connection with a bomb scare at the Port Harcourt Airport on Wednesday after the unnamed suspect contacted a Nigerian actress on her cellphone.
The incident caused panic on the Lagos-bound flight before takeoff.
The secret police said in a statement that the call had been traced to a five-star hotel in Abuja and a man had been arrested.
“During interrogation, the subject claimed that he had called the passenger based on a vision from God,” the statement said.
“He also claimed that he is Jesus Christ who died 2, 000 years ago. It then became apparent that he is mentally unstable.
“He is, accordingly, presently receiving medical attention.”
An emergency evacuation of a flight before takeoff in the oil city of Port Harcourt was ordered on Wednesday after the actress received a call warning her that explosives had been planted on the aircraft carrying 98 passengers.
Hilda Dokubo, the actress, said that she had been phoned by an unknown caller who ”asked me and other passengers to immediately disembark because the aircraft was infused with explosive devices that would explode when we‘re airborne.”
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