Without security air travel ‘ll be difficult — FAAN MD

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has announced its full campaign and active participation in the ongoing Airport Council International, ACI-Africa Security Week taking place in Abuja from October 25th to 28th, 2021.

The Security Week 2021 with the theme: ‘Promotion of Security Culture in African Airports’ which holds at the Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau conference centre, Nigerian Correctional Service Headquarters, Abuja and is celebrated across all member airports according to the Managing Director of FAAN, Captain Rabiu Yadudu will feature lectures on different topics, interactions etc.

Describing the theme for the week to be in tandem with the declaration of the year 2021 as the Year of Security Culture by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Yadudu declared: “Security Week is Airport Council International (ACI) initiative. I want to use this opportunity to further sensitize and create more understanding and awareness”.

He emphasized that, stakeholders, airlines, government agencies, concessioniers, ground handlers, passengers and communities within the airport environment will be educated and sensitized on their duties regarding security.

“Without security, no one will fly in this industry. That is why from the beginning, we have the Chicago Conference of 1944, which people sat down and created ICAO, which will regulate and coordinate civil aviation industry. That regulation and coordination is all in the interest of safety and security.”

According to the FAAN MD, the airports do not operate in isolation as whatever happens within and around the community will have effects on the airport, adding that, there was the need for the communities to be carried along, sensitized on their roles and how to contribute their quota to the overall security of the environment.

His words: “No airport operates in isolation, we are not islands what happens within the community or around the community affects the airport so, each airport will do it with the staff, the community, with other stakeholders, agencies, military and para-military, organizations involved in each state and then off course we shall bring it to the stakeholders like passengers, airlines and handlers because it is an industry affair, aviation is for everyone”.

He noted that, a lot has been done in ensuring security across airports in Nigeria which he said many people many not see and know about, stressing that, If things were going on smoothly, it means some people were doing something behind the scenes.

“AVSEC security system is something you hardly see or notice until something goes wrong and the workings go around every day for seven days. We  cannot have aviation without proper security. Security allows us to have aviation industry”.

Topics like insider threats, unlawful interference, training, retraining, recurrency, social challenges, vulnerability among others will be treated by various speakers at the safety week.

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