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Airport Concession: Workers Assured Of Job Security

August 13, 2021
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The Federal Government has assured workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria that they will not be laid off as the government plans to concession four major international airports in the country.

At a virtual meeting held with aviation stakeholders, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, stated that instead of laying off staff, more hands would be engaged as most of the airports needed more workers.

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According to the Minister, the four airports billed for concession are the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Port Harcourt International Airport, and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The minister informed the stakeholders that there would not be any need to sell the country’s assets but to concession them in a manner that would modernise the airports and have them operated to create more jobs as well as generate more revenue for the country.

Sirika saod, “We will not sell the assets that belong to over 200 million Nigerians and the future generation of this country. We are not going to sell because those that were sold were lost, so, we in government believe that we should hold those assets for the Nigerian people in trust.

“We must make those assets better to provide the services that are needed. So, we said, rather than sell outrightly, we will concession. In other words, we would give it up to someone who would operate them and make them better. We will then get more money, the people will enjoy better services, the industry grows and after a certain time, the airports will come back to us,” he said.

The minister further explained that the airport terminal buildings to be concessioned would generate their revenues from non-aeronautical resources, while all other facilities at the airports and existing concessions, outside the airport terminals, would still be managed by FAAN.

He added that the concessionaire would sign service level agreements for runway, taxiway, security, and air traffic management with FAAN and NAMA to ensure that the airport operated efficiently.

The minister also stated that the concessionaires would provide the investment required to upgrade the existing terminals, take over the maintenance of new terminals over a period of time, based on the financial assessment of each transaction.

Existing concessions within the terminals, however, would be inherited by the concessionaire and would be allowed to run their course before any review, Sirika said, adding that tariffs would be regulated in accordance with the procedures set out in the concession agreement.

Sirika noted that airports in the country were currently operating in a suboptimal environment and thus they needed improvements that would be provided by the participation of the private sector, especially in infrastructure investments, runway maintenance, navigation aids as well as investment in terminal facilities.

He added that with the increasing population, a private operator of the four main airports would run them based on international standards and expand the facilities, in accordance with traffic demands at each of the airports.

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