Air Peace foil attempt to traffic two babies out of Lagos
Air Peace airline’s personnel have reportedly foiled an attempt to traffic two babies by a man and woman at Murtala Mohammed Airport, Terminal 2, Lagos.
Spokesman of the airline, Mr. Stanley Olisa, who disclosed this yesterday, 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.
He said, “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 security personnel but they gave different narratives.
“The two adults gave conflicting explanations to different staff- that the babies were being taken to 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 traffic 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.
