Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday has yet again taken a swipe at his predecessors, saying they did little to increase passenger handling capacity or airport terminals since the early 1980s.
The President made the claim in his remarks at the inauguration of the new terminal of the Port Harcourt International Airport in Omagwa, River State, southern Nigeria.
He said the neglect by successive governments combined with an increase in the nation’s population has made the airport terminals to become miserably inadequate to cater for the increase in passenger traffic.
President Buhari said the construction of four new international terminals at Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Kano airports was embarked upon by the Federal Government with a view to modernizing the aging airport infrastructure to meet global aviation standards.
“The Federal Government responded to a global trend in which aviation became a catalyst for economic growth as a result of massive and speedy movement of persons, goods and services in a safe and secure manner.
