Murtala Muhammed International Airport
The Federal Government has handed down a forty eight hour ultimatum to
Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) along the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport (MMIA) access road to relocate their vehicles from the airport
environment or face being sanctioned.
The Regional Manager, South, West, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria
(FAAN), Mr. Edward Olarerin who disclosed this yesterday at a
stakeholders meeting held at the conference room of MMIA said the need
to relocate the drivers became imperative due to the dangers the present
location posed to the airport community.
Olarerin said the present location of the vehicles which has tank farms
and trucks parked close to the airport constituted the highest threat
to the environment and communities around adding that it could become a
ready tool in the hands of terrorist who might be planning to use it as
a weapon of mass destruction.
He said the Authority has provided an alternative park for them to
relocate, adding that work to cordon off their present site would
commence Monday next week.
“When we went to Abuja, I am talking about the presidency now; we were
given directive before the last meeting that we must move everybody out
of that place.
“This is an instruction from Abuja and coupled with the transformation
that is going on in all the airports now. We appreciate the fact that if
the pipelines were working there would have been no need for the
tankers to be there in the first place but because you have to take
aviation fuel directly from the depot to the airport we had to allow
them because we have to make sure that aviation fuel is available.
“That is why you have the tankers there. They are supposed to be very
few, where you have six marketers that could not require more than six
vehicles at a particular time. We now have tankers that are not supposed
to be here at all, that are not meant for the airport, that are not Jet
A1 tankers coming to the airport."
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