Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo has promised that unauthorized agents will be removed from inside and outside Nigeria’s international airports to ensure a smoother experience for travelers.
Keyamo noted that there are two sets of touts at the International airports, causing the country a huge embarrassment before its visitors.
He disclosed this at the Ministerial Sectoral Press Briefing ordered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu – GCFR.
“There are two types of touts at the airports. The official touts and non-official touts. That’s the truth.
“You meet touts outside and inside the airport you meet touts in uniforms, who dip hands into bags, ask for money.
“In many cases, we’ve seen disgraceful videos on social media. Although this is not under us, it’s just our environment but we’ve spoken to the Interior and the National Security Adviser and we’re working jointly on that.
“We may have to present a joint memo very soon to try and reduce the human contact at the airports. All of those agencies should be behind glass doors somewhere.
“They cannot all be seen embarrassing our country. We’re addressing that problem and very soon we’re going to come with a holistic solution.
“For the touts outside, we are asking for back up because FAAN, they don’t carry arms. Some of these boys [touts outside] are armed.
“So we’re trying to call for help from normal security agencies to see how they can cooperate with us to purge them out of the airports.”
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