I Want to Go Home and Study Engineering, Stowaway Boy Pleads

Daniel told his unsolicited hosts, the State Security Service (SSS), when he was asked yesterday that he wants to go home and continue his education.

Daniel, since he was brought back from Lagos two weeks ago, has been detained in a building at the Government House, Benin City, in the company of security personnel. He has become lonely and somewhat depressed.

The boy who answered questions in mono syllabics in the lonely facility told newsmen that he was happy with the award of scholarship granted to him by the Edo State Government.

Daniel also said he did not know that he took a risk when he hid in an airplane’s wheel compartment saying, “I will not do it again.”

“I regret it,” he said with a solemn and helpless expression, adding, “I want to go home. I am tired. I will be happy to train as an Engineer.”

Fortunately, in a move aimed at facilitating his engineering dream, the Edo State Government has secured admission in one of the state’s top secondary schools for 13-year-old Daniel.