Enugu Airport reopening expected to improve Nigerian economic recovery

Chairman Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa/NEPAD, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Enugu East has recently stated that the reopening of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu would improve the nation’s economic recovery.
Senator Nnamani who articulated great delight on the
reopening of the airport after the repairs, remarked that he was optimistic
that the economy of the nation especially in the Eastern region that was on the
low ebb because of the shutdown aggravated by the outbreak of coronavirus would
now pick up.
In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday, Senator Nnamani said: “I welcome the news of
the reopening of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport that serves as the
gateway to the Igbo area of Nigeria with excitement“.
Recall that the airport had been shut down for 370 days by
the aviation authorities because of safety concerns including the hitherto
faulty runway surface and navigational aids in order to meet international
standards.
The former governor who hailed the Governor of Enugu State,
Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, for his leading role in the actualisation of the
project, said: “It is ennobling that Governor Ugwuanyi has lived up to the
expectation of overseeing the primary and central city of Igbo land. “He did
not only coordinate, organise and champion the activities but he was directly
involved on a daily basis. “It is consistent with the role expected of the
Governor of Enugu State to symbolize total Igbo social and cultural appropriation
of the city of Enugu.”
Senator Nnamani, however, advised airport users not to allow the excitement of the reopening to undermine the adherence to all the COVID-19 protocols, saying that the health of citizens matters.