Muritala Mohammed International Airport
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Foreign
airlines have kicked against the relocation of their offices to the
third floor of the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, stating that
the action is not in their interest.
The President, Association of Foreign
Airlines Representatives of Nigeria, Mr. Kingsley Nwokoma, who said this
in a statement on Sunday, noted that the stakeholders were not carried
along by the relevant authorities before the move was embarked upon.
“We are not happy about this; we were
not carried along and we feel it is not acceptable and government should
know that without the core stakeholders in this industry, nothing
moves. If, today, the airlines decide collectively that we have an issue
and we are not coming in, everybody will sit up and questions will
start coming up,” he said.
He also lamented the level of obsolete
avio bridges at the international airport and called for their
replacement, noting that they were an embarrassment to the nation.
He said, “If you look at the avio
bridges, we still have the old ones that have been there since the
eighties. They are leaking; they are not in good conditions. We expect
that those avio bridges should have been changed in line with the
innovations going on around the airport.
“There was a recent release on airport
ratings and none of our airports made the first 10 in Africa and it is
all these structures that are used as a yardstick. The avio bridges
should be changed.”
While calling for the installation of
closed circuit TV cameras around the airport as a result of security
challenges in the country, Nwokoma said there was the need for proper
illumination of the airport at night, especially at the air side.
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