The Federal Airport Authorities of Nigeria (FAAN) has taken to the global microblogging site, Twitter, to call out some Custom officers for forcefully opening a closed door at the airport security reserved area, and threatening to beat up FAAN officer.
“At about 1745hrs on Thursday, January 20, 2022, while the AVSEC officers on day duty at Gate 3 were profiling a NAHCO vehicle that wanted to access the Security Restricted Area (SRA) via gate 3, the Customs Area Comptroller for Hajj and Cargo Terminal suddenly emerged and pulled off behind the NAHCO vehicle that was being attended to,” FAAN tweeted.
It added, “And CSC Agunbiade, a customs officer on the Area Comptroller’s entourage later shoved aside the AVSEC Officer at the gate, forcefully took over the gate and opened the gate for the Comptroller and his escorts to access the Security Restricted Area via the gate.
“This blatant abuse of the privilege of bearing firearms by the NCS has become a recurrent threat to the safety and security of our staff and our operations,” FAAN explained further.
“While we keep on working to resolve all our challenges decisively, we hereby urge all stakeholders to please respect our mandate by being of disciplined and professional conduct in the interest of national security and operational safety.”
In response, the Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) responded on Twitter claiming that the restricted security area might be a smuggling route.
“Saying that a gate is restricted to Customs in an international cargo airport shows lack of understanding of NCS roles. Could it be that the gate is being made available for Smugglers?” Customs tweeted.
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