The Minister for Aviation & Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has announced plans to purchase baggage scanner machines in five International airports in the country to address the issue of multiple baggage search checks by different security agencies.
Keyamo disclosed this on Tuesday, November 28
He said: “Since I came to office, we have been inundated with complaints of harrowing experience, experiences that passengers go through at the Airport, where they have to physically search their bags, and sure you all know about that, it been really getting under the skin of Nigerians, you see various agencies lined up, NDLEA says open your bag, Immigration open bag, Customs says open your bag, EFCC open your bag, and they will be dipping their hands in your bags you know.
“We thought we should do something like you have the TSA in America where you have detection machines so when they pass your bags through the machines it detects explosives or any other things and that is the end of the search and so for the approval of the award of contract for the supply and installation of customized explosive and narcotic detection screening systems with remote and dual view for the International Airport of Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu.”
