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Officials of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and those of Airpeace are trading words over an alleged burglary incident on the cargo compartment of an Abuja-bound Airpeace Aircraft 18R at the Lagos airport. The Spokesman for NCAA, Mr. Sam Adurogboye, in a statement yesterday issued on Sunday faulted the pilot’s allegation of burglars attempting to burgle his aircraft cargo compartment,

saying a review of all the reports from relevant agencies at the Lagos airport had led to the conclusion that the theft incident on the aircraft was unfounded. “The NCAA came to the conclusion that the Runway 18R burglary report is unproven, largely unsubstantiated and therefore should be discountenanced.”


Reacting, the spokesman for Air Peace, Mr. Chris Iwarah, accused the NCAA of trying to cover-up the inefficiencies of airport security and regulatory agencies stressing that if urgent steps are not taken to address the rising cases of theft at the airport, it could have negative impact on the nation's aviation sector.


“While we remain unwilling to be drawn into unnecessary controversy with agencies that ought to have been jolted into action from their slumber by patriotic information as we did on the incident, we are compelled to say the purported report by NCAA is both a lazy and a shoddy cover-up job.


We will like to advise NCAA and its collaborators to treat complaints of security breach at our airports with the seriousness they deserve rather than this culture of baseless denial and attempt at cover-up. As members of the public may recall, similar incidents reported recently were also dismissed without a basis


“We need to reiterate that our pilot’s call to control tower was made after the rear cargo hold of our aircraft was opened and shut after 15 seconds,” he added.

 

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