BEVERLY HILLS, May 29, (THEWILL) – John Ojikutu, an aviation security expert and CEO of Centurion Securities Group, has advised the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to also beam its search light on flights from Middle East, Far East, East Africa and South Africa.
Ojikutu gave the advice in reaction to the Emirates flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that was forced to make an emergency landing at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, due to the worsening health condition of a suspected cocaine trafficker.
Ojikutu, a former Military Airport Commandant for MMIA pointed out that Ethiopian Airline was the original trafficking flight, wondering how many traffickers had NDLEA interdicted at Enugu airport since Ethiopian airlines had been operating to Enugu airport.
“The NDLEA searchlight on cocaine traffickers should not be on Emirate flights alone or on passengers coming from Brazil; focus should be on all flights from Middle and Far East, East and South Africa, especially, Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopian, Kenyan Airlines, etc,” he said
“Proper attention must be given to passengers on Ethiopian Airlines, especially the flights to Enugu as these are the airlines and their routes for more than four decades.
“I knew this way back in 1987 on my way to Kenya and 1990/94, when l was the military airport commandant for MMIA. That was the reason for approving Ethiopian Airline flying to Enugu by the Minister that did it and at the time it was done.
“Compare the passengers’ traffic on that flight to Enugu airport with the traffic on same flight to Lagos.”
He added that it should not be difficult to identify the passengers as the trends had always been from a particular geographical area.111111111
Story by David Oputah
