FG Alerts Security Agents As Criminals Planning Attacks On Airports

 

The Federal Government has alerted airport security chiefs across the country of impending attacks by suspected criminals. To this end, the government through the Ministry of Aviation has alerted the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to beef up security across the airports.

FAAN’s Deputy General Manager in charge of Administration and Logistics, S.M. Mamman, issued a memo to airport chiefs of security to review security measures to stave off the attacks.

The airports listed included Kaduna, Maiduguri, Sokoto, Kano, Abuja, and Lagos.

The memo read: “I am directed to convey an alert from the Ministry of Aviation regarding security threats by criminal elements against Airports in Nigeria and to request for the immediate enumeration of necessary countermeasures for the protection of Airports/Facilities under your purview.

“Specifically, the Airports pinnacle on the list for which criminals are considering sporting out attacks encompass the ones in Kaduna, Maiduguri, Sokoto, Kano, Abuja, and Lagos among others. However, all airports are hereby alerted and requested to operate at a heightened risk stage.”

Also, airport safety chiefs had been directed to “submit a listing of current and additional countermeasures to address the threats, along with their fee implications wherein relevant”.

Also, they're expected to urgently convene an emergency meeting of airport protection committees “to review the fame of airport security, collectively advise suitable measures and proportion duty for effective implementation”.

Daily Trust reviews that new security features have been installed location at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), the busiest airport in the us of a.

One of the measures, it turned into learnt, was the brand new directive barring drivers to select arriving passengers in front of the terminal.

Spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi’ also confirmed that a new protection arrangement is in place on the airport whilst he confident airport users and operators of maximum safety in and around the airport.