AILING former vice-president, Alex Ekwueme was today flown abroad for medical treatment.

Vanguard Newspaper reports that the second republic vice president was brought to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu with a National Orthopedic Hospital Enugu, SUV ambulance at about 7.26am and driven straight into the tarmac, where he was taken into a waiting air ambulance with registration number N605 JA.

Punch Newspaper reports that ambulance departed the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, around 8:30 am.

Independent Newspaper in its own version reports that the white air ambulance used to fly him abroad arrived the airport on Saturday night and spent the night there.

The destination of the flight was not known. Sources at the Memphys Hospital, were he was admitted after slumping in his house while he was said to be trying to fetch something from the dining table, kept sealed lips.

The octogenarian who celebrated his 85th birthday on October 10, had members of his family who were at the airport to bid him farewell.

Rumours making the rounds days later that he had passed on were debunked by the family just as the Presidency gave orders for him to be flown abroad once doctors gave the green light.

A Vanguard Correspondent in Enugu, who witnessed the event was attacked by soldiers, policemen and other airport security officials who confiscated his camera, mobile phone and other working tools.

Some of the security men who were attached to Ekwueme as well as his family members deleted all the pictures of the Air Ambulance from his camera and mobile phone which they seized, threatening to visit him personally, if the story of the incident was published.

Agbo was briefly detained at one of the offices in the airport, where his mobile phone and empty camera were later returned to him.