Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) Mr Matthew Pwajok has appealed to airline operators in the country to bear with the authorities over the temporary closure of the Runway 18L at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos.
He said though painful, it is however necessary that the installation of the airfield lighting system is done now to forestall complications in the event of an emergency on the second runway 18R at the international wing of the airport, affirming that the industry will be better for it.
The NAMA helmsman told reporters in Lagos at a media event that “we have been anxiously waiting for the lighting systems on Runway 18L. It is something that is a necessary evil, we have to shut down and work on it to have it a very good runway. It is very important so that if you have problem with the international runway, you have something to use at night.”
He explained thus “the way we have been operating using only one runway at night means if we have problem with the international runway, it means we can’t use any other runway and I think everybody is collaborating to make sure that we can all endure it and at the end of it, Nigeria will be better off and Lagos will be better off.”
