Crashed Flying Object In Ibadan, A Toy Not U.S Drone – LG Chairman, Police, SSS

The flying object which fell through the roof of a resident of Awotan in Ido Local Government of Oyo State has been described as a toy and not a United States spy aircraft as earlier speculated by residents.

Chairman of the local government, Professor Joseph Adeniyi Olowofela, who alongside the police, SSS and members of the Defence Corp on Sunday recovered the flying object, described media reports that an object crashed into the home of a resident as very unfortunate and misleading.

He also frowned at the report and the intention of its writers.

“What happened was that a man was playing with a toy with his son and the toy got lost only to be discovered by a neighbour and instead of searching for the owner of the toy, the neighbour kept it in his home for a week. And the next thing was to read on a newspaper that a spy object lost control and crashed into a resident home”, he said.

Corroborating Olowofela’s account, the owner of the kite- like object, Sunday Folayan, an Electronic engineer and the Vice President, Nigeria Internet Registration Association, NIRA, also expressed shock at the reported crash.

Folayan, who is the owner of Skynet, a service provider company based in Ibadan, was part of the delegation that went to recover the toy on Sunday.

Folayan, who claimed to have produced many similar toys for his son in the past, explained that he was playing with his son with the battery propelled toy when it suddenly went missing from view and all effort to retrieve it failed last week Sunday.

He also gave a vivid description of the toy which he produced for his son.

“The weight of the toy is 0.8 kilogram with the shape of an i-pad.  It cannot run more than 15 minutes. It is not solar panelled, but uses battery and a remote control”.

But a cursory examination of the object does not reveal any similarity with an i-pad which often comes in a rectangular shape.

However, the chairman of the local government urged the media to do more of investigative journalism, rather than speculative reporting.

He added that the report was capable of causing strained relations between Nigeria and the U.S government on the backdrop of allegations that the U.S had been covertly spying on several countries including its allies.