Aviation minister raises alarm over state of Benin airport – Vanguard
November 23, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Minister of Aviation, Mr Babatunde Omotoba, weekend, raised alarm over the decaying state of facilities at Benin Airport.
He observed that there were major cracks on the run way and that some areas were in the process of collapsing which, according to him, constitute a threat to safe flight operations.
Omotoba, who spoke to newsmen while inspecting facilities at the airport, observed that when traffic started picking up in 2007 at the airport, “suddenly we found out that the terminal building that was built for two hundred people is now taking about one thousand people.
“So the terminal building is inadequate, the car park is inadequate and then we have only one fire vehicle working out of the two and they are very old, about thirty years old.
