The boy barely speaks clear English, according to WLWT Eyewitness News 5 reporter Brian Hamrick. Oumar Nkeng was last seen at the airport on Dec. 18. Hamrick reported that the teenager made all of his connecting flights from West Africa to Cincinnati, then missed his connecting flight to Memphis. Nkeng's airline paid for his hotel room at the Drawbridge Inn, in Fort Mitchell, Ky., Hamrick reported. The next morning, he left for the airport on a shuttle bus but Nkeng missed his flight.
Witnesses say the boy on the shuttle bus and at the airport.
Nkeng is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. He had been in Cameroon for the last 10 years. Nkeng was living in Cameroon with his father but he died two years ago, Hamrick reported. The teenager reportedly fled slave-like conditions in Cameroon and with help from the U.S. State Department, flew to the U.S. to be with his mother, Jacquelyn Ennis, who lives in Memphis. Hamrick reported that Nkeng's father had custody of the boy and that his mother had no idea where her son was living for the past 10 years.