The director of aviation security services at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr Afegbai Igbafe, has decried the porous nature of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, saying as many as 20 to 30 intrusions are reported every night.
He disclosed in an interview in Lagos that the airport host communities had broken the perimeter fence and made incursions into facility.
“The perimeter fencing is an issue in the sense that we have a lot of encroachments because the airport is a vast land. We have been trying to put in place some patrol measures. We have patrol at night. We have observation posts manned by the AVSEC personnel. Then we have the joint patrols with the military, the Air Force, and the AVSEC personnel.
“A lot of the fences have been destroyed by the neighbouring communities. There is a big challenge because we will get as many as 20 to 30 intruders every night,” he said.
Igbafe further said when he took over he met a lot of issues which he tried to address.
“We tried to fix a lot of them by providing some of the amenities like the CCTV cameras.
“Now we are trying to do access control whereby every individual that is coming to the airport will be properly checked because we found that we have a lot of concessionaires, we have a lot of security people who are not supposed to be at the airport that come in and out.”
Igbafe also said he discovered that some AVSEC personnel were not trained in the last 10-20 years.
