FAAN faults Amaechi on PH airport upgrade

THE Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria, FAAN, has refuted claims by Governor Rotimi
Amaechi of Rivers State that the remodeling of the Port
Harcourt International Airport, has been suspended by the
Federal Government over the political face off between
President Goodluck Jonathan and the governor.
The governor was quoted aa making the allegation last
Saturday, while being a host on a television programme.
Speaking after ascertaining the progress of work on the
airport upgrade project, FAAN’s General Manager, Public
Communications, Mr Yakubu Datti, said that the level of the
project covered does not suggest such allegations.
He said: “Work at the International Airport has been 90
percent completed. You can see the lights powered and
water running. This is facility that is very dear to
government because it is the window to the oil industry and
it is strategic because it is in the heart of the South South.”