Abuja
-Scarcity of trolleys has hit the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
(NAIA), Abuja, making it difficult for travellers to carry their luggage
at the airport.
Trolleys are hard to come by at the airport, making porters to make
brisk businesses, providing trolleys to travellers at the airport.
Mrs HenriettaYakubu, Deputy General Manager of the Federal Airports
Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) confirmed the shortage of the trolleys at
the airport.
She explained that porters were employed initially by FAAN to help
aged people and travellers with excess luggage before the FAAN
management decided to sack the porters because of their fraudulent
activities at the airports.
“A window was opened whereby porters reached an agreement with the
management to pay some amount of money monthly for the trolley in order
to continue operating at the airport but with a warning not to demand
money except it is given willingly by passengers.
“It is because of this abuse of opportunity that FAAN normally
punished any porter caught in any illicit act within the airport by
either suspending or dismissing them from operating in the airport,
depending on the gravity of the offence,’’ Yakubu said
She said that FAAN had decided to make the trolleys available to
porters who were to pay N5,000 monthly to FAAN, noting that it was for
that reason that the porters, in turn, demanded money from travellers to
help carry their luggage.
“Presently, the number of trolleys that we have at the airport is not
enough to meet up with the demand of the passengers, due to high inflow
and outflow of travellers at the airport daily.
“We cannot deny the fact of insufficient and unserviceable trolleys
at the airport and this has been affecting the passengers but the
management was looking into the matter before the issue of re-modelling
of the airports came on board.
“ I believe things will change soon and the issue will be addressed
as soon as possible because the re-modelling process is in phases; when
it is time, the issue of trolley will be touched.
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