Some desk staff of Air Peace have foiled the trafficking of
two babies by a couple at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Terminal 2, Lagos.
The spokesman of the airline, Mr Stanley Olisa, disclosed
this in a statement on Tuesday.
Olisa said the Air Peace’s passenger service executives and
security personnel smelt a rat when the two adults, travelling to Asaba, were
being checked-in at the counter on Monday.
“On June 7 at MMA2, around 1200 hours, a man and a woman,
carrying two babies, approached our counter for check-in.
” Our passenger service executives, being suspicious of the
behaviours of the duo, questioned them about the babies. They said the babies
belonged to them and were travelling to Asaba.”
Olisa disclosed that as the suspicion intensified, the two
adults, who hinted that the babies were three months old each, were further
questioned by another counter attendant and a security personnel but they gave
different narratives.
“The two adults gave conflicting explanations to different
staff- that the babies were being taken to the the United Kingdom to unite them
with their parents and later they said they were sending the babies to Zimbabwe
for adoption.
“Upon further questioning, the adults confessed that they
were not the parents of the babies.
“Consequently, Air Peace’s Security Unit took both of them
to the MMA2 Police Station where they admitted that they are agents who
trafficked children for adoption.”
Olisa quoted the police to have agreed to transfer the case
to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for
further investigations and action.
Air Peace crew had similarly prevented two child trafficking
attempts in June 2018 on a Lagos–Banjul flight and in January 2019 on a
Lagos-Port Harcourt flight.
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