The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
on Sunday issued a seven-day ultimatum to all its debtors to settle all debts
owed to the Authority or face its final decision.
The final demand notice expires August 24, 2015,
Yakubu Dati, FAAN’s spokesperson, said.
BuisnessDay gathered that airlines,
concessionaires, contractors and other users of the Authority’s facilities’
debt might be up to N18 billion.
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The Authority had in February this year, at all
Nigerian airports, threatened to publish a list of such debtors in major
Nigerian newspapers as a prelude to other measures designed to help it recover
all its outstanding debts.
It added that it was constrained to take this
measure because the level of indebtedness to the Authority might soon begin to
take a toll on its services, which should not be allowed to happen, in the
overall interest of safety and security at airports.
“The Authority has also observed, rather sadly,
that most of its customers deliberately refuse to pay their charges/fees long
after FAAN has rendered them statutory services.
“All affected debtors have earlier been
communicated with details of their respective indebtedness to the Authority,”
Dati said.
He said the affected debtors, where in doubt,
were advised to liaise with the Authority’s Credit Control Department at its
headquarters for reconciliation of their accounts within the period of this
notice.
“At the expiration of this notice, the Authority
would, pursuant to a Presidential directive, be compelled to take necessary
measures to recover these debts. FAAN is self sustaining and cannot meet its
responsibilities within the burden of these huge debts,” he said.
BusinessDay gathered that the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority might soon follow suit by publishing names of debtors,
especially, airlines, as it threatened earlier.
An official of the Authority said this was
because the responses from the debtors were not impressive.
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