The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has accused Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of refusing to have his temperature checked at the domestic wing of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa.
In a statement on Thursday, FAAN alleged that Mr Fintiri and his entourage refused to cooperate with airport officials following coronavirus protocols on Tuesday.
The agency said the governor and his team also refused to sanitise their hands and have their baggage sanitised.
It also said that government officials who came to receive Fintiri and his team drove right through the barricades up to the terminal building ignoring traffic and aviation security instructions.
FAAN said it strongly condemned the acts, describing them as “irresponsible” and “unacceptable”.
“The Management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria hereby strongly condemns the conduct of the Governor of Adamawa state Alh Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, who arrived Port Harcourt International Airport aboard aircraft 5N-IZY, at 17:08 hrs on 14th July 2020 with 8 others, and who flagrantly refused to observe the Airport Security and Public Health protocols as directed by the Federal Government through the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 by refusing to have his temperature checked, or being sanitised by the health officials.
“His (Fintiri) whole entourage of 8 did exactly as he did. The team that came to receive them drove right through the barricades up to the terminal building ignoring traffic and Aviation Security instructions.
“This irresponsible act endangers all other airport users, it is unacceptable, and as such it has also been duly escalated. FAAN hereby cautions all airport users, especially our esteemed VIPs, to please respect the Presidential directive by observing airport Security and Public Health travel protocols put in place to protect all air travellers against acts of unlawful interference, infection and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the statement read.
The agency had also accused former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, of assaulting an airport official at the Kano airport enforcing COVID-19 protocol.
