Yesterday, a video of the parts of the leaking roof at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, went viral. There was palpable outrage onlin
Yesterday, a video of the parts of the leaking roof at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, went viral. There was palpable outrage online about why one of the gateways in to the country would have leaking roofs after millions of naira were supposedly expended to refurbish airports across the country, the Lagos international airport inclusive, only recently.
Well the Management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has issued a statement to address the issue. The statement reads; “The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria wishes to inform passengers, airport users and the general public that in line with the Executive Order issued recently by the Presidency aimed at ‘Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria’, the Authority is doing everything possible to improve the quality of her services.
“Following this Order practical steps have been taken by Management to improve on safety and security architecture of the nation’s premier airport and also improve comfort and passengers experience. Consequently, upgrade of facilities has commenced in different areas at the International Terminal building of MMIA airports and as a result we are experiencing challenges as we have to keep up with our core operations going on while the upgrade continues.⠀
“Continuing, the assistant general manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu, said, “Sequel to this on-going works, we recently experienced some leakages from roof at the ‘D Wing’ of the Terminal of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, owing to a heavy rain accompanied by wind storm. This is directly connected to the civil engineering works going on at the roof top at that location, which temporarily interrupted our engineers replacing the old roof members with new ones.
“It was practically impossible at location due to its altitude and slipperiness while the rains lasted, but work immediately resumed after the rain subsided, and the integrity of roof was restored.⠀ We want to state clearly that this defect did not affect operations in any way or at any time at the Terminal, and that the structural integrity of the Terminal is still very much intact. FAAN reiterates her commitment to a safe, secure and improved facilitation at the nation’s airports.”
See video of leaking roof below
