Woman breaches security at Lagos airport
Latest NewsApr 30, 2010
By Kenneth Ehigiator

LAGOS—The Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, has again suffered a security breach, as a woman sneaked through a private terminal to board an Abuja-bound Aero Contractor flight without ticket.
It was learnt that the breach has compelled security agencies at the airport to stop most of the charter operators using the terminal from operating therefrom.

A source told Vanguard that the woman, who is currently being held by Air Force Police, was said to have walked by the new terminal of the airport (MMA2) last week, moved through the Air Force-guarded hangar housing the NAFIS Unit of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, and Kings Air, to gain access to the air side and MMA2 tarmac.

Having accessed the tarmac, the woman headed for the Abuja-bound plane and boarded.
It took the alertness of the airlines’ ground staff at the tarmac to apprehend the woman and her handed over to airport security personnel, who immediately alerted Nigerian Air Force personnel at the private terminal.

The action of the woman is said to have resulted in the closure of the hangar and termination of operations of charter operators flying from the private terminal.
Staff of the NAFIS Unit of NCAA are said to be having problems accessing their offices since the incident happened last week.
VIPs who patronise charter operators have had to now shift their movement to the Presidential Wing of the airport where airplanes of the operators are taken to for their flight.

Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was reportedly caught in the shut down of the private terminal last Sunday and had to fly out through the presidential wing.

Alhaji Atiku has not, since leaving office in 2007, flown through the presidential wing of the airport.
Former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu and Managing Director of UBA Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu, are among the personalities who have in the past week relied on the presidential wing to embark on their trips into and outside Lagos.

Vanguard also observed yesterday that most of the pilots whose operations revolve around the shut private terminal now use the car park of the presidential wing for their parking purposes, just as staff of Kings Air and NCAA’s NAFIS Unit now use the entrance leading to the fire department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to access their offices via the air side.

FAAN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mr. Akin Olukunle, told Vanguard on the telephone that he heard about the incident, but claimed not to have the details.

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When shall we ever get it right in this country. Are the personnel at our airports dummies?

selingel:


LAGOS—The Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, has again suffered a security breach, as a woman sneaked through a private terminal to board an Abuja-bound Aero Contractor flight without ticket.
It was learnt that the breach has compelled security agencies at the airport to stop most of the charter operators using the terminal from operating therefrom.

A source told Vanguard that the woman, who is currently being held by Air Force Police, was said to have walked by the new terminal of the airport (MMA2) last week, moved through the Air Force-guarded hangar housing the NAFIS Unit of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, and Kings Air, to gain access to the air side and MMA2 tarmac.

Having accessed the tarmac, the woman headed for the Abuja-bound plane and boarded.
It took the alertness of the airlines’ ground staff at the tarmac to apprehend the woman and her handed over to airport security personnel, who immediately alerted Nigerian Air Force personnel at the private terminal.

How long shall we continue with these breaches? As for Airforce personnel, I wonder whether it is lack of work for them nationwide, that is they are not focusing on their jobs, or airports be built only for airforce. They are not doing well at the nations airports at all. The other, it was in Calabar, and through airforce wing, and now Lagos, and through the same airforce wing.

It is better now. Those days we used to fly Nigeria Airways, Okada Air, and Kabo Air, once the aircraft was taxing towards either take off or after landing, you will sight people farming very close to the runway. In fact, a particular day, some farmers had to wait for our aircraft to land, before they ran across the runway, heading towards their farmlands. That is how porous our airports security systems, are!.

stowaway - end of story

Oboma1:

It is better now. Those days we used to fly Nigeria Airways, Okada Air, and Kabo Air, once the aircraft was taxing towards either take off or after landing, you will sight people farming very close to the runway. In fact, a particular day, some farmers had to wait for our aircraft to land, before they ran across the runway, heading towards their farmlands. That is how porous our airports security systems, are!.

To the security personnel then, they never saw anything wrong in them farming there. I was reliably informed that, those days, FAAN or NAA (as they used to call them then), used to rent those grounds for people to come and farm on, lol!. It was when the era of rating airports that they started curtailing it. As for the woman, I want to believe that, she never did that out of her own volition. There is somebody somewhere or even a cartel, that aided her. Let them investigate the breaches very well, and you will be surprise at what will come out of it.

Nigerian airports will never seize to amaze me. MMIA for example; No light, no airconditioners working fine, very rowdy environment, no security, structures are even older than myself, what is it that one will say the airport is really good at?

Enjoyment1:

Nigerian airports will never seize to amaze me. MMIA for example; No light, no airconditioners working fine, very rowdy environment, no security, structures are even older than myself, what is it that one will say the airport is really good at?

I hope those in support of Fashola building another airport will not read this; they will yab all those not in support of the N73.3billion project.

Why would that woman choose Aero of all airlines? Thank GOD Oceanic Bank did not catch her, she would paid all the $200m Aero is owing them