Months after the Federal Government purchased body scanners for its international airports in the wake of a Christmas Day bomb attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, those equipment have remain unused, even as officials said on Wednesday that U.S. air marshals now protect flights coming into the country.
Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Harold Demuren, said government needs trained officers to man the screening devices already in place at the Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport and the international airport in Abuja. The machines are yet to be installed at the international airports in Kano and Port Harcourt, he added.
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