The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Wednesday said that it had concluded plans to evict touts from the nation’s airports.
The authority’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Yakubu Dati, told journalists in Lagos that the Minister of Aviation, Mr Osita Chidoka, had directed the elimination of low level corruption.
Newsmen gathered that Chidoka, had on Tuesday, ordered FAAN and the Nigerian Air Force to within two weeks flush out touts loitering around the arrival hall of the Lagos International Airport.
He said “a mobile court for the airport would be requested for from the Lagos State Government, where defaulters of airport rules would be tried and sanctioned immediately”.
The minister had also promised to provide more CCTV cameras at the airports, to enhance security surveillance.
Dati explained that the authority had keyed into the aviation ministers campaign against low level corruption and expressed optimism that the scourge would soon be eliminated.
According to him, corruption has dented the image of the country.
He appealed to passengers to bear with FAAN the pains and inconveniences being encountered as a result of the construction of the new terminal.
The FAAN spokesman assured that by this time next year, the situation would have changed for the better.
