Insecurity: Reps Meet FAAN, Others Over Airports’ Safety

The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has said it is engaging with the National Security Adviser, Major General. Babagana Monguno (retd.), and regulatory agencies in the aviation sector on the protection of airport facilities, workers, and passengers in the wake of growing insecurity in the country.

Chairman of the committee, Mr Nnolim Nnaji, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, said agencies such as Nigerian Airspace Management Agency and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority had also been contacted.

The House had on March 17 resolved to invite the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, to appear before its Committee on Aviation to explain how bandits gained entrance to the Kaduna airport and kidnapped 11 persons.

This was sequel to a motion unanimously adopted by the lawmakers, which was moved by Mr Musa Pali, who prayed the House to ‘invite the Minister of Aviation to brief the Committee on Aviation on how the bandits gained entrance into the Kaduna airport and how to prevent future reoccurrences in the nation’s airports’.

The House, which unanimously adopted the motion, had also urged the Inspector–General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and other security operatives at the nation’s airports to ‘beef up security to prevent such breach and to secure the release of the abducted people and fish out the bandits’.

Speaking to our correspondent, Nnaji said, “We have discussed with the NCAA; we have discussed with FAAN. We also are discussing with the office of the National Security Adviser.”

He added that because the security situation was beyond ordinary, the committee was going beyond NCAA and FAAN and discussing with the NSA.

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