FAAN
The Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has been accused by the Federal Airport Authority Of Nigeria (FAAN) of violating the COVID-19 protocols put in place to ensure safety at the Port Harcourt Domestic Airport Omagwa.
FAAN alleged that the governor and his entourage refused to get the routine temperature check while travelling on Tuesday July 14. They also refused to sanitise their hands and bags as the other passengers were doing.
Upon the resumption of air travel, the airport authority had released a set of rules that would guide air travel during the pandemic.
The rules also excluded the entourage of public figures from the airport but the officials who came to receive Fintiri had no regard for these regulations as they drove straight to the terminal to receive the governor.
FAAN wrote,
“The Management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria hereby strongly condemns the conduct of the Governor of Adamawa state Alh Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, who arrived Port Harcourt International Airport aboard aircraft 5N-IZY, at 17:08 hrs on 14th July 2020 with 8 others, and who flagrantly refused to observe the Airport Security and Public Health protocols as directed by the Federal Government through the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 by refusing to have his temperature checked, or being sanitised by the health officials”
“His whole entourage of 8 did exactly as he did. The team that came to receive them drove right through the barricades up to the terminal building ignoring traffic and Aviation Security instructions.
“This irresponsible act endangers all other airport users, it is unacceptable, and as such it has also been duly escalated. FAAN hereby cautions all airport users, especially our esteemed VIPs, to please respect the Presidential directive by observing airport Security and Public Health travel protocols put in place to protect all air travellers against acts of unlawful interference, infection and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
This is coming just a day after FAAN accused Governor Abdulaziz Yari, the Kano State Governor of assaulting an airport official who tried to carry out the routine Covid-19 check.