Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, Nnolim Nnaji, has said the planned demolition of private hangars obstructing some boarding fingers at the new terminal of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos is ill-advised.
Nnaji spoke at the weekend during a joint oversight inspection tour of the airport by the Senate and House of Representatives committees on Aviation.
The lawmaker said the obstruction was not considered during the initial construction of the new terminal, adding that rather than spend billions of tax payers’ money on compensation, “FAAN can restrict the use of the affected fingers to narrow-bodied aircraft and deploy the money that would go for compensation to the owners of the facilities to the building of additional terminal”.
Nnaji’s Senate counterpart, Smart Adeyemi, backed the House Committee Chairman’s position.
