Aviation security expert/CEO of Centurion Securities Group, John Ojikutu, has advised the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to beam its search light on flights from Middle and Far East, East and South Africa.
Ojikutu’s advice is coming on the heels of Emirates flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Dubai, United Arab Emirates that was forced to make emergency landing at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, due to due the deteriorating health condition of a suspected cocaine traffickers.
According to Ojikutu, “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.”
Proper attention, the former military airport commandant for MMIA said must be given to passengers on Ethiopian Airlines, especially the flights to Enugu, adding that these were the airlines and their routes for more than four decades.
The security expert stated that in Nigerian, it should not be difficult to identify the passengers as the trends had always been from a particular geographical area.
In his words, “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.”
The Centurion boss 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
“Compare the passengers’ traffic on that flight to Enugu airport with the traffic on same flight to Lagos,” he said.
