ABUJA: A cleaner was stopped for smuggling $300,000 cash out of the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
According to the Deputy General Manager Public Affairs of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr Nnaekpe Onyekwere, the said cash was found on a worker with one of the cleaning contractors at the airport, Tijani Owolabi, during a comprehensive screening at the ‘D’ Finger of the international terminal.
Part of the money was found on Owolabi while the rest was recovered from the sanitary bucket he was trying to pass through screening.
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 investigation.
