FAAN Set To Remove Abandoned Aircraft From Airports

In a bid to sanitise the nation’s Airport of wreck, the management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said it will soon commence the removal of abandoned aircraft from all airports nationwide.

According to the General Manager, Corporate communications FAAN, Alhaji Yakubu Darti, the exercise has become necessary due to the serious safety hazard posed by the aircraft pointing out that apart from being an eyesore at the airports, some of the aircraft have been abandoned for upwards of 10 years.

He explained further, that the authority was constrained to embark on the removal exercise because owners of the abandoned rot aircraft have deliberately refused to remove them despite all efforts made by the management of FAAN to make them do so, including meetings with the owners and publications of paid notices in various newspapers in the past five years.

Darti told journalists that some of the owners of these abandoned aircraft had taken FAAN to court over the issue and got court injunctions that made it difficult for the Agency to carry out the exercise before now.