The Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria, FAAN, has suspended the head of aviation security in Akure following
the invasion of the airport runway by cows on Saturday afternoon.
An Air Peace flight from Lagos
was at about 12:15pm on Saturday prevented from landing at the Akure airport,
as cows took over the runway.
The General Manager, Corporate
Affairs, FAAN, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, said on Monday that the agency was not
unaware of recent developments at some airports within the country with respect
to security breaches, and had started putting measures in place to improve
security.
Yakubu stated that, “We have
taken various initiatives and measures to guard against breaches of any sort at
all our airports nationwide. It will be recalled that there had been serious
allegations of security breaches at some airports recently, the latest being
the incursion of the Akure airport runway, which led to a temporary disruption
of landing procedures of an inbound Air Peace flight.
“While we apologise for the
incident, we want to state that officers of the security department quickly
dispersed the cows from the runway to allow for a successful landing of the
flight. We have taken other steps like the query issued to the Akure airport
manager, while the head of security at the airport has been suspended even as a
team of engineers from FAAN are already working to ensure that all gaps
responsible for this incident are promptly closed.”
“We also have a joint patrol
arrangement involving military officers, men of the Nigeria Police Force and
aviation security at our airports at all times. These efforts will help in no
small measure at bringing to the barest minimum security infractions at our
airports,” she added.
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