The Federal Government
has plans to concession the management of the Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and
Kano airports to private investors.
The Minister
of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Lagos
during a fact-finding tour of facilities and agencies at the Murtala Muhammed
Airport.
He was
accompanied by the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika; Director-General,
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Muhtar Usman; Managing Director of the
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Saleh Dunoma; and the Nigerian Airspace
Management Agency, Ibrahim Abdulsalam; as well as the Director-General, Nigeria
Meteorological Agency, Dr. Anthony Anuforom, among others.
The minister
said the planned concession of the four airports was to guarantee efficiency
and good management in view of dwindling resources from the government for
infrastructural development in the aviation industry.
Although,
Amaechi did not disclose the airports that would be privatised, there were
indications that the Lagos airport; the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport,
Abuja; the Port Harcourt International Airport; and the Mallam Aminu Kano
International Airport, Kano were the aerodromes slated for concession.
Amaechi also
gave December 2016 as the deadline for the completion of the four major
international airport terminals under construction in Lagos, Abuja, Port
Harcourt and Kano.
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