– Requests for proposal on national carrier establishment out Monday
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says the process for the concession of Nigeria’s four major international airports will be completed in the second quarter of this year.
The minister said this while recieving executive committee members of the Abuja Transport and Aviation Correspondents Association on a courtesy visit to his office in Abuja.
Sirika also announced that the requests for proposals on the establishment of a national carrier would be out on Monday.
Recall that the Federal Government has also been making efforts to concession Nigeria’s major international airports in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano.
Speaking on the concession, Sirika said, “The transaction advisers for the concession have finished the Outline Business Case and had got the Request for Qualification. We’ve pre-qualified the people and they’ve been issued Request for Proposal”.
“They’ve turned the proposals in and we are analysing them to announce the successful bidders and this will be soon. Our timetable is for the first quarter of this year.
“Well, I can see that it is still happening, let’s be very ambitious, but certainly it will end in second quarter and all the (identified) airports will be concessioned.”
The minister further noted that many airports have been established since the current administration took over government in 2015.
He said, “There are more airports today than when we came in 2015. There’s Anambra and Lafia airports; there is Ekiti airport, going on; Makurdi airport, going on; Yobe airport, Ebonyi airport and many other airports.
“We have about 12 new airports added since we came and this is growth. And we have the same in other aspects of the sectors, as more runways are being added, more capacities for the airports are being delivered.
Sirika said the government was diligently implementing the key components of the aviation sector roadmap, adding that “we are very sure that before the end of the term of Mr. President, these things will be achieved and realised.”
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