Newly renovated Lagos airport terminal facilities failing —Investigation

Four months after the newly reconstructed General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, was opened by the Federal Government, the baggage conveyor belts at the arrival hall are still not working. Also, some of the facilities installed in the terminal are already failing. The GAT, also called MMA Terminal One, was reconstructed for 11 months at a cost of N648m, and was opened with fanfare on October 22, 2012 by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim; and Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah.

“I now took my time to take a look at the whole arrival lounge as a whole and I found out that these contractors did a completely shoddy job. The paint job is whack. And looking up at the roof, I found so many markings as to wonder if work was actually completed on the roof. Why are we so mediocre in Nigeria? Who certified these jobs because they were obviously done with substandard materials? And to think that billions of naira was actually budgeted and spent on this airport.”