Abuja — As part of measures to ensure that security arrangements at the country’s airports are functional and capable of detecting threats to the country’s aviation sector, the House of Representatives, yesterday, directed its committee on aviation to carry out a full audit of all security facilities at the nation’s airport and report to it within four weeks.
Similarly, the House also directed the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, to initiate measures to remove obsolete NITEL cables nationwide.
In a motion brought by Ossai Nicholas Ossai, the lawmaker noted that the global security challenges in air transportation called for urgent adoption of measures to forestall any breach of passenger and aircraft safety in Nigeria.
He, however, noted that the on-going renovation of the airports had dislocated and disrupted the smooth functioning of installed scanning machines and other vital security gadgets, thereby posing great security risk to passengers and the airports.
According to the sponsor of the motion, the resort to manual search of passengers, instead of the 3D scanning gadgets installed at the airports, is defective.
He said there was need to restore the existing walk-through, ground search and other metal and security detection gadget capable of releasing relevant details about passengers and other persons accessing the airports’ vital zones.
The House, therefore, directed that the committee on aviation investigate the functionality of security equipment at the airports and report to it.
In another development, the House also urged the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to initiate measures to remove NITEL obsolete cables nationwide.
In a motion brought by Samuel Williams, he noted that even after 10 years of GSM “our streets are still littered with NITEL cables, erected on wooden and rotten poles loaded with intertwined cobweb of overhanging dirty wires which pose health and safety hazards to people.”
News credit: Vanguard
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