The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Managing Director, Mr. Kabir Mohammed, has threatened to impose sanctions on government employees, agency staff, and other individuals who have engaged in passenger extortion.

 

In spite of multiple reports of airport employees using various tactics to extort travelers, particularly foreign nationals, Mohammed claimed that FAAN had intervened by hiring “mystery staff” at the country’s four international airports.

He revealed this during the one-day sensitisation programme on Airport Council International (ACI) Airport Service Quality (ASQ) initiative organised by the Directorate of Airport Operations and held at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) on Monday, December 4.

 

He explained that the responsibility of the mystery staff was to take note of the activities of staff at the airports and report same to management.

He warned that anyone caught in such act this Yuletide season would face disciplinary consequences.

The FAAN boss challenged representatives of all the government agencies that operate at the airport namely; Customs, Immigration, Quarantine, Police, and all others to be at their absolute best when carrying out their day-to-day activities.

He encouraged the spirit of collaboration among personnel of various agencies at the airport.

“We are one airport and if there’s any wrongdoing, people don’t bother to know which agency did the wrong. They only know the airport where they were wronged,” he maintained.