Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), angered by the inability of its debtors to keep to terms of agreement, has vowed to publish their names as a prelude to other measures designed to help the Authority recover all its outstanding debts.
And for the benefit of doubt, FAAN in a statement issues by Mr. Yakubu Dati, general manager, Corporate Communications, directed all affected customers of the Authority to approach the Authority’s Debt Recovery Department at its headquarters or Airport Managers across the country with relevant documents for reconciliation of accounts with the Authority.
The statement read: “The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) wishes to notify all its debtors, including airlines, concessionaires and other service providers, at all Nigerian airports, that the Authority will soon publish a list of such debtors in major Nigerian newspapers as a prelude to other measures designed to help the Authority recover all its outstanding debts.
“All affected customers of the Authority are hereby advised to approach the Authority’s Debt Recovery Department at its headquarters or Airport Managers across the country with relevant documents for reconciliation of accounts with the Authority.
According to Dati who did not disclose the amount owned by the debtors, however, “the Authority is constrained to take this measure because the level of indebtedness to the Authority may 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”.
He said that FAAN 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.