SAHCO backs NDLEA on war against drug trafficking

As the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) continues to make arrests of drug traffickers particularly at the warehouses of the two major ground handling companies in Nigeria, the Skyway Aviation Handling Company PLC (SAHCO) and the National Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) on a daily basis, SAHCO one of the companies has declared its continuous support to Nigeria’s fight against peddling of controlled substances.

The ground handling companies both located at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport has continued to be in the news following the huge consignments of narcotics regularly intercepted by the NDLEA at their warehouses.

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The Managing Director/CEO of SAHCO, Basil Agboarumi stated that SAHCO boasts of well-trained staff that are equipped to know what to look out for according to world best practices before accepting Cargo and are also trained to be cooperative with Government’s agencies like the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) assigned to SAHCO’s Import and Export warehouses.

Agboarumi also reiterated that SAHCO, which is a major gateway to Import and Export in Nigeria has one of the best warehouses in West Africa and these warehouses are Customs bonded.

According to him, “the warehouses which are built with the latest technology and constructed with the customers’ best interest at heart and for the purpose of maintaining our clients’ trust by ensuring that clients of questionable businesses are not allowed to use SAHCO’s warehouses as gateways for their nefarious activities.”

While emphasising that SAHCO had a campaign titled “See Something, Say Something, Do Something” where all staff are trained to always call attention to unscrupulous activities and crooked acts, Agboarumi stressed that SAHCO had a long-time commitment to support the government’s agencies that are stationed at every point where SAHCO conducts businesses by giving them unhindered access to every nook and crannies of both Import and Export Warehouses, providing the necessary scanning machines and other screening technologies to support NDLEA and other Government agencies operations.

SAHCO is an aviation ground handling public liability company that is involved in Passenger handling, Ramp handling, Cargo handling and warehousing, VIP Lounge services, Aviation security services and all other aviation related activities.