LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A passenger on Air Peace, identified as Vitalis Nwabuzor, has been caught stealing about N1 million from another passenger onboard.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the spokesperson for the airline, Stanley Olisa, in a statement, said that the incident took place on board the Abuja-PHC flight P47192 on 27 July.
Olisa said the suspect stole the amount contained in a brown envelope but was caught by the owner of the money with the intervention of the airline’s staff.
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He explained that during the flight, the suspect took another passenger’s computer bag from the overhead cabin.
“He, thereafter, took the brown envelope containing the money, put the computer bag in another luggage compartment, and moved to an empty seat at the back of the aircraft.”
Olisa said the suspect was one of the first few to disembark despite the announcement of a proper disembarkation sequence by the crew.
He added that the suspect was eventually caught, and the money retrieved from him, with different currencies in different denominations found on him.
According to the statement, the suspect has been handed over to the security operatives of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria for onward transfer to the Police for further investigations.