Airport Security Equipment Upgrade To Gulp N20billion

The upgrade of security equipment in all international airports around the country would quaff N20billion, comptroller general of the customs, Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd) has revealed.

Ali revealed this while on a tour of inspection of the state of security equipment at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, alongside the minister of finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun.

He said the move has become imperative owing to the mundane state of most of the airport security equipment, a situation he said is not in tune with world best practices.

“Most of the equipment are out of date and do not meet the present situation, hence the need for the review of the whole system and we are not looking at one airport, but our international airports.The moment we can make a seamless operation for traders and passengers they would want to use our own airports in the transaction of their businesses. This would enhance trade facilitation and in turn increase revenue generation,” he said.