An incident that would have put the nation’s most popular airport, Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos in a bad light was averted recently involving a Customs official and a moving vehicle on the airside of the airport.
To ensure operational safety, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced the ban of any airport official, who has neither undergone the mandatory airline drivers training, nor certified appropriately to drive on the airsides of the nation’s airports.
A statement from the Authority says, “With this directive, all airline officials, Security agencies, ground handling companies, and other stakeholders are hereby put on notice to ensure that their officials, that have airside related roles, and will need to drive, are sent to FAAN’S training department to undergo this mandatory training before been assigned to duty”.
It also emphasizes that, it will no longer take lightly any act of violation of this directive, in the interest of safety.
