Standup9ja: FAAN,
Airport authority set to implement Executive Order at airports
The Federal
Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has initiated the implementation of the
recent Executive Order issued by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at
the airports in the country.
Mr Saleh
Dunoma, Managing Director, FAAN, made this known in a statement signed by the
agency’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, in
Lagos on Sunday.
Dunoma said
that machinery had been put in place to
ensure a successful implementation of the executive order which he would
supervise himself.
According to
him, the importance of the executive order cannot be overemphasised, especially
because it will strengthen the nation’s fight against terrorism and eliminate
unnecessary bureaucracy that impedes business activities at the airports.
He said it
would also improve safety, security and passenger facilitation within and
around the airports.
Dunoma urged
passengers, airport users and the general public to cooperate with FAAN officials
carrying out their responsibilities.
The News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Osinbajo had recently issued the executive order
which is aimed to ” ease doing business in Nigeria”
The order
states among others that :” There shall be no touting whatsoever by official or
unofficial persons at any port in Nigeria.
” On duty staff
shall be properly identified by uniform and official cards. Off duty staff
shall stay away from the ports except with the express approval of the agency
head.
” The FAAN
Aviation Security (AVSEC) and Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Security shall
enforce this order.”
It further
directed that all non-official staff should be removed from the secured areas
of airports.
“No official of
FAAN, Immigration, security agency or Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) or any
other agency is to meet any non-designated dignitary at any secure areas of the
airport.
“The official
approved list of dignitaries that have been pre-approved to be received by
protocol officers shall be made available to AVSEC and other relevant agencies
ahead of their arrival at the airport,” it said.
Also, according
to the executive order, any official caught soliciting or receiving bribes from
passengers or other port users shall be subject to immediate removal from post
and disciplinary as well as criminal proceedings in line with extant laws and
regulations.
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