The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has announced that anybody found guilty of flouting airport protocols will either go to jail for two months and above, pay a fine or get both sanctions.
Hadi Sirika who made this known yesterday, during a briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja said the agency is investigating the flouting of COVID-19 protocol at airports by three VIPs.
He said, according to the Nigeria civil aviation regulations, “An unruly passenger, according to table two 9, (51) an unruly passenger behaviour requires the punishment of criminal referral for imprisonment for not less than two months so you can get ten years.”
There are reports that Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa state, Chief Nduka Obaigbena and former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari have allegedly flouted COVID-19, protocols at airports.
