...Kaduna Airport Has Robust Facility to handle Passengers-Sirika
The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved about N1.1 billion for the completion of the terminal building at the Kaduna Airport
which started in 2012. This is according
to report on Nigerian Television Authority, NTA.
The Federal Government gave the approval at the weekly
Federal Executive Council meeting today. According to the Minister of State for
Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika while briefing State House newsmen after the FEC
Meeting, “ the terminal building will be concluded and finished in due course. It
has completion period of 6 months. The contractor will remain within the 6
months period or lower . The Contractor has accepted and the Council has
approved.”
Giving the capability
of Kaduna Airport in handling passengers during the closure of Abuja airport,
Sirika said, “as Kaduna is, there are facilities that can be used, robust
enough to take the passengers operations for the period of 6 Weeks. It will not
hinder it and it will not also stop them from working.”
The minister also gave
reasons on the proposed closure of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport,
Abuja runway. “The entire structure of the runway has failed. The runway was
designed for twenty years to cater for not more than 100, 000 passengers per
annum. Today, it is doing over 5 million passengers per annum and it is there
for 34 years. So it is going for 14 years in the excess of designed age. We are a government and very sensitive one for that matter. We would
not just cause hardship or distortion to the economy for the sake of
it.
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