Even as the country undergo harrowing experience in the hands of Boko Haram members, security personnel at the Nigerian airports will remain unarmed inspite of the security challenges besetting the country.
Rather, all security agencies at the nation’s gateways should be networked to ensure a close knitted rapport that would ensure adequate security at the airports.
The Benin Airport Manager, Sunday Ayodele who spoke with aviation correspondents recently, said that though the Benin airport has put in place adequate vigilance to ensure that security issues are up to date at the entry point, going further to arming the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) security personnel would not be an aberration.
He noted that aviation is a globally regulated sector and that under such situation, no country under the regulation of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) could act in isolation.
Ayodele said this just as he said there is a water tight synergy among the various security agencies at Benin airport to guarantee needed security.
He gave kudos to the present management of FAAN for timely intervention on occasions of need while he also praised the timely remodelling of the airport.
“But for the timely remodelling of the Benin airport, we would have faced serious dearth of passengers as a result of the Asaba airport which has now started operations. You know, Asaba and Anambra passengers used to patronise us here before the Asaba airport came into operations.
“But now that we have a better airport, we do not really feel the heat to the extent it would have been even those who used to go by road before are now flying because we now have better facilities under the remodelling project,” he said.
He stated that the major challenge being faced by the airport is that of light, stressing that the airport spend about N1.9 million on Power Holding Company Limited (PHCL) electricity while it also uses about 7000 litres of diesel to service its generators on monthly basis.
He however said operations has been hitch-free since the headquarters of FAAN has been up and doing in ensuring that facilities at the airport functions to optimum capacity.
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