Trading At PH Airport Worries Users

Travellers and those
that do business at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, have expressed worries over increasing rate of trading at the airport which they adjudged to be an international gateway by its status.
Some of the airport users who spoke with The Tide on the issue expressed concern that new faces keep on flooding the airport on daily basis in the name of seeking for their daily bread.
The most worrisome thing, according to them, is the fact that their activities at the airport are not efficient or known to the management of the airport.
According to the Chairman of Accredited Car Hire Association of Nigerian (ACHAN), Port Harcourt International airport, Mr Clifford Wahunoro, any one that does business at the airport, that is not known to the airport management is illegal.
Wahunoro noted that it is worrisome how people just come to the airport to look for their daily bread without the knowledge of the airport management.
He explained that car hires association is a legitimate business at the airport because such operations are known to the management.
“There are many people who come to the airport to do business now, either as ticketersand brokers, among others, without approval, and they go about their activities and, along the line, bring other people to the airport for similar business”, he said.
Also reacting to the matter, Mr Lucky Barikor, a ticketer at the airport opined that the airport businesses have turned to “all comers affair”, without check.
He said that this has increased the rate of touting at the airport to the extent that his clients are scared of the turn out of events.
The Tide had also observed that little efforts made by FAAN security operatives to stop the hawkers around the airport premises have failed, as the hawkers, now find their way back to the area.

Corlins  Walter