Stowaway: In-laws after me ‘over govt money’ – Mother

People may have their different views about the action of the 13-year-old stowaway boy, Daniel Oikhena, but he has become some sort of  a super star, going by the attention being paid to him by  security agencies and the Edo  State government.  Daniel, on Saturday, August  24,  stowed away in the wheel well of an Arik aircraft from Benin-City  to Lagos.

After he was handed over to the Ministry of Women Affairs by the officials of the Department of State Security (DSS) in Benin-City,  penultimate week, Governor Adams Oshiomhole waded into the matter when he decided to meet with  his parents  to see how to assist the boy in his education. Following an  interview with the boy at the  Government House,  the governor was convinced that the boy  was intelligent but the separation of the parents may have resulted  in  his poor upbringing.

Consequently,  Oshiomhole directed the Women Affairs Ministry to take over his training in order to afford  Daniel the opportunity to realize his life’s  ambition. Daniel’s mother Evelyn, had  said the son  wanted to fly a plane to America as a pilot.

Daniel went back to school  on  Monday, 16  September  after he was examined by doctors and a psychologist and was found to be sound. Seeing the boy  now is more difficult than seeing a governor. This is so because the state government had taken up the responsibility to ensure that he gets good education. Efforts to meet him to find out how he was preparing to go back to school were  frustrated by the security around him.

When Sunday Vanguard met with the mother,  Evelyn, to find out  the whereabouts of the son, she said: “It is even difficult for me to see him some times because he is undergoing some training and that is being taken care of by the state government. I no longer have powers over him. It was even recently that I was able to see him.

They decided to allow me see him because they were preparing him to go back to school. The only thing I can say now is that the father and his people are bothering my life. They think the state government gave me money and,  rather than think about the welfare of the boy, they think  it is all about money. They accused me of saying  my husband was sick or was even dead but I never said all that and God knows”.


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