PH Airport: FAAN Wants New Route To Host Community

The management of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, has appealed to the Rivers State Government to embark on the construction of another link road from Igwuruta-Ali to Ipo community, so as to make the present Airport-Ipo Road serve the airport alone.
Making the appeal in an interview with aviation correspondents at the Airport last Tuesday, the Regional General Manager, South-South/South-East, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Ojo Afolabi, said that the Airport-Ipo Road is supposed to be an access road to the airport only.
He said that the airport link road now serves as road that links other communities around the airport, adding that the road needs to be closed to communities located after the airport.
“We appeal to the present Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, to give attention to the construction of Igwuruta-Ali-Ipo Road, via the School Road, which had been awarded by the last administration.
“This new road will serve as alternative link road to communities around the airport. Government is a continuum and for other security reasons, let the Airport road serve as access road to the Port Harcourt airport alone”, he said.
Afolabi, who is also the Airport Manager of the Port Harcourt International Airport, also explained that the China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) has a plan to extend the airport-Ipo Road.
According to him, the Airport management will have to wait for the CCECC to finish what they planned on the road extention, before FAAN will embark on the street lighting project.
“We have something on ground concerning the lighting on the road, but it will not be the way people will think”, he said.
The FAAN boss also called on the private sector to invest on a car park at the airport, like what is obtainable at the Lagos Airport.

Corlins Walter