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FAAN Moves To Sanitise Airports Protocol Activities

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has directed that no individual or agency should be allowed to escort passengers or conduct any type of protocol activity after immigration process for departing passengers, and before immigration process for arriving passengers at all the nation’s international airports.
FAAN, in a statement made available to The Tide, yesterday, explained that the move was in line with provisions of the Federal Government’s directive on the Ease of Doing Business.
The statement further said that only the FAAN protocol services and the designated Ministry of Foreign Affairs officers would be exempted from the directive at international airports.
“Consequently, in the interest of our common safety and comfort, all passengers, agencies, and other stakeholders are requested to kindly align their airport activities accordingly.
“Similarly, passengers are also advised to please desist from coming to the airports with groups of friends and relatives. This is aimed at enhancing the safety, comfort and efficient felicitation of human and vehicular traffic at the airports”, FAAN said.
Also in the statement, the airports authority has given firm assurance that it would partner with the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) to ensure that airports premises do not become a safe haven for copyright criminals.
“As government agency, we are committed to protect public interest, even in copyright matters and we owe a duty to assist each other in executing our mandates.
“The legal and commercial teams of FAAN will be deployed to assist NCC to strengthen its enforcement actions at the airports across the country”, it stated.
While decrying the pervasive piracy in the copyright sector, FAAN also urged right owners and other stakeholders in the industry to address the challenges in the distribution networks, so as to make genuine copyright works more readily available in the market.
Corlins Walter