Cleaner caught with N53M cash at airport

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September 4, 2015 12:04 PM

The suspect, Tijani Owolabi was arrested on Thursday, September 3, 2015, while trying to carry the cash through a screening point.

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport

A cleaner at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos has been arrested with the sum of $271,135 (about N53 million), reports say.

The suspect, Tijani Owolabi was arrested on Thursday, September 3, 2015, while trying to carry the cash through a screening point.

The arrest has been confirmed by the Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Onyekwere Nnaekpe via a statement.

The statement reads in part:

“Aviation security personnel of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria today September 3, 2015 prevented the trafficking of a total sum of 271,135 American dollars through the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja.”

“The sum was found on a worker with one of the cleaning contractors at the airport, Mr. Tijani Owolabi, during a pat down at one of the screening points at ‘D’ Finger of the international terminal.”

“The airport cleaner who was suspected to be conveying the foreign currency to an accomplice at the sterile area of the terminal, was immediately apprehended by aviation security staff on duty and handed over to the appropriate security agencies at the airport for further investigation.”

Meanwhile, a Nigerian man is also said to have been arrested in Niger Republic for attempting to carry N1 billion in cash to Dubai.

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