- An eighty-year-old businesswoman, Eno Traore, has said she stood on a plane from Lagos to Paris in what she said was her first travel experience
- Traore said her travel coincided with the first coup Nigeria experienced in January 15, 1966
- She said her hand and that of her friend were tied to a top part of the plane, and that they were made to stand throughout the trip
An eighty-year old businesswoman, Eno Traore, says she stood on a plane throughout her journey from Lagos to Paris on the day of the first coup Nigeria experienced in January 15, 1966.
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NAIJ.com gathered that Traore who was born in Duke Town in Calabar, Cross River state on November 26, 1937, travelled out of the country for the first time in 1966.
According to the interview she granted Punch Newspaper, she said her experience of traveling out of the country for the first time was exciting but the irony of it was that she left on the day of the first coup.
She said: "That was the day we were to travel to France. Back then, we didn’t know what a coup was; we were all asking ourselves the meaning. Roads were blocked. We then heard the news that the prime minster was killed.
"There was much chaos. My flight was to take off by 1.pm but as of 4.pm, I was still on the road. When I finally got to the airport, there was no plane on ground except for Air France meant to transport my colleagues and me. I can still remember that the airport was like a market. It was crowded.
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"I also remember seeing a group of British kids who were waiting to return to England. There was no plane to take them. The airport authorities then decided to put all of us on the plane. It was choked; they tied the hands of my friends and me to a top part of the plane. We were made to stand throughout the trip – from Lagos to Paris."
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Traore, a younger sister to the first indigenous inspector general of police, the late Louis Edet, said she is the only surviving child of her father.
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Source: Naija.ng