A teenage Senegalese football player made the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 his temporary home since his arrival in Manila on October 12. He said he was duped by a fake football clinic invitation.

“I want to go home now. I don’t have money to support my stay here,” the 17-year-old French-speaking Moussa Kissima Samate said through an interpreter. He added that he did not expect this to happen to him.

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