who was caught after hiding in the wheel
well of an Arik plane from Benin to Lagos
on Saturday, August 24, 2013. After that
incident, Governor Adams Oshiomhole
reached out to him and placed him on a full
scholarship. Today 15 year old Daniel is a
boarding student in one of the
prestigious secondary schools in Edo and
enjoying all the facilities available as the
governor’s son.
Speaking to Sunday Vanguard,Daniel who is
currently on break from school relieved the
moment he took that risk
“I feel stupid and ashamed of myself
remembering what I did. That thing
could have led me to jail or even
death. My life has changed since then
and I thank God for that. I was even
scared then that the Comrade
Governor was going to put me in jail
but he saved my life”.I have been
telling any person who cares to listen
not to try that thing I did, it was too
risky. I was shocked to have survived.
If not for God I would have died”.
Asked what motivated him that day, he
said,
“I don’t know what actually entered
my mind really, but all I knew was
that I had the courage that I could fly
in the plane. I just believed I will not
die in that trip, that rather something
good was going to happen to me. I
celebrated my birthday in school in
April, I thank God I am now 15 years.
I thank God for my life”.
Discussing life in school, particularly when
he was bitten by a snake, Daniel also
relieved the horrible experience of being
bitten by a snake in school.
“When I had the snake bite, I was
rushed to our clinic in school before
my mum came and took me to a
Specialist Hospital where I spent three
days.
I told my mum to help me tell the
Comrade Governor but she said she
tried but could not because it was not
easy to see the governor. Governor
Oshiomhole is my father and I will
always remain grateful to him
because he sent me back to school.
When the stowaway incident
happened, I was scared of what he
will do but he invited my mum and I
and asked me what I will like to
become and encouraged me to go to
school.
Daniel who has not see the governor since
that incident said
Let me use this opportunity to appeal
to him that he should still remember
me. I am the same Daniel that he put
in school. I am forever grateful to him
for the scholarship he gave me. I want
to beg him to help my mum on her
business. Infact my mother was trying
to do that but she spent the money
paying hospital bill after the snake
bite.
Speaking on his father,he said
My father left us even before that
aircraft incident and it is only my
mum that is taking care of four of us.
It has not been easy; we need help.
One of my sisters wants to enter the
university to read medicine now, and
you know it is expensive. We know
the Comrade Governor cannot do
everything but he can help my
mother reopen her business so that
she can take care of us. And that is
why I wanted to see him to beg him.
Daniel’s mother, Evelyn, who also spoke to
Sunday Vanguard, expressed her gratitude
to Oshiomhole, noting that the future of
Daniel may have been in jeopardy if not for
the intervention of the Comrade Governor.
Her words:
“I want to first of all thank Governor
Oshiomhole for the assistance he
rendered to us by giving my son
scholarship. But my son has been
worried that he has not been able to
see the governor since he was
registered in school so that he can tell
him how he is doing.
I remember that period, people
thought the governor gave us money
and they were all disturbing me. I told
them that my interest was not money
but to take care of my son. All I am
begging now is for him to assist me
open my shop again so that I can take
care of Daniel and others. My shop
got burnt and he promised me then
to help reopen the shop again for me.
I want to use this opportunity to thank
him and to also tell him not to forget
Daniel”.
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