By Boluwatife Ezekiel Olaleye
All activities at the international wing of
the Murtala Muhammed Int'l Airport were last night paralysed following power
outage that saw darkness encompass the whole terminal.
An eyewitness account said the outage
which lasted for about two hours, forced airlines to stop attending to
passengers, the Nigerian Immigration Service stopped the assessment of
passengers documents as facilitation came to abrupt stop.
Also passengers who arrived the airport
had to stay back in the aircraft as there was no light in the arrival
area of the airport.
Those who had arrived already at the baggage collection hall had to also wait as they hoped that electricity would be restored.
A source told THISDAY that after waiting
for sometime, the immigration officials resorted to manual examination
of passengers documents as the airlines were chocked by time and had to
leave to meet other connections at their destination.
At the arrival areas, there was a growing chaos as angry passengers became impatient to collect their bags.
“I came here more than one hour ago but
there was no light then and there is no light now. I am at the E Wing
but the D Wing is more chaotic because the passengers are getting
agitated. The airlines are hoping that their passengers could be
processed so the immigration officials are now resorting to manually
check our documents. Nobody is telling us anything,” a passenger who was
travelling in one of the airlines told THISDAY.
However, when contacted, the General
Manager, Public Affairs of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria
(FAAN), Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, said the light was restored, adding that
the outage did not last long.
Source: THISDAY
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