The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) says it consumes four
trucks of diesel, each containing 33,000 litres, in ensuring regular power
supply at the Port Harcourt International Airport (PHIA) every month.
FAAN’s General Manager, Southsouth and Southeast, Mrs Ebele Okoye, in a
statement yesterday, said FAAN was worried over the high cost of running
generating sets to provide electricity at the airport.
According to Okoye, the unstable public power supply at the airport has
made it to depend on generating plants, which gulped a lot of diesel.
Okoye said the funds being used to get diesel could have been
used in other areas.
She said the spending on diesel was putting pressure on the finances of
the organisation and urged the Ministry of Power to come to their aid in
ensuring regular public power supply was at the airport.
The General Manager urged airline operators and passengers to bear with
the authority on the ongoing work at the airport, assuring them that they would
benefit from it at the end.
Okoye also said the management of the airport was embarking on home
delivery of cargo in conjunction with an independent company.
She said a new toll gate would soon be erected as part of the airport’s
means of generating revenue, noting that it would be done in conjunction with
the Rivers State Government.
Okoye said funding had been the greatest challenge in the day to day
running of the airport.
No comments:
Post a Comment