The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has given reasons as to why the call for the closure of the Kaduna Airport would not be adhered to, in the aftermath of Saturday’s bandits attack.
The Managing Director of FAAN, Captain Hamisu Yadudu, made revelations over the weekend as he expressed regrets on over the attacks carried out at its staff’s quarters.
It would be recalled that kidnappers abducted the agency’s staff and five family members and three other persons at the Kaduna Airport.
According to Yadudu, the call for the closure of the Airport was not necessary, as many of the staffs do not live at the quarters.
The MD thus added that a closure would become necessary only if a need for the closure arose.
“This incident is entirely different from closing down the airport. It’s a security concern that we have at our staff quarters. A lot of our staff do not even live in this quarters. If there is need for us to close, we will close it, but this is even far away from it.
“There is no need for that drastic action. Just small percentage of our staff stay in the staff quarters; the rest are all living in the town. You can see that the staff quarters is fenced. We are taking appropriate measures, but like I said, we just have to improve to counter these challenges.
“The fence was broken, there are security measures. We have security personnel attending to the area, but somehow, somewhere, things happened and now it is time for us to counter as we have been doing always.
“Security is a race. Security challenges will always come and we will improve and on our own part, we keep improving to outsmart them,” he said.
