Vanguard
*KACCIMA bids for Kano Airport
*We ought to be given right of first refusal —Bi-Courtney
*Concession’ll improve airports facilities —Airline operators
By Lawani Mikairu
Preferred bidders for four of the nation’s international airports would be announced today by the Federal Government.
This is coming three years after the government disclosed plans to concession the airports, including Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja; Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano; and Port Harcourt International Airport.
The preferred bidders were to have been announced on September 27 but had to be pushed forward to today to enable more bidders participate, according to information at Vanguard’s disposal.
This is even as the operator of Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2, MM2, Lagos, Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd, BASL, expressed anger that it ought to be given “right of first refusal“ to bid for the four international airports to be concessioned since it had experience in running concessioned terminal (MM2).
