Nigeria: Senators Hail Completion of Tracon Project

30 November 2012

The Senate Committee on Aviation, which toured airport facilities and projects last in a verification exercise, has expressed satisfaction with the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON) project and described it as the most modern system for airspace surveillance.

Chairman of the committee, Senator Hope Uzodimma, said the value of the project has not been well appreciated because of the criticisms that attended its establishment, "TRACON has not been managed well because of petitions here and there, but this is a project that has been justified. It has not been managed well in terms of public perception."

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