The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is set to commence cashless transactions across airports in the country.
Speaking in an interview in Lagos, FAAN’s general manager corporate communications, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, said the aim is to foster ease of payment, create payment options and improve the speed and convenience of payment.
She said all the necessary arrangements had been made for the commencement of the e-payment across the entire agency’s airport network.
Yakubu said the cashless transactions will reduce the carrying of cash as transactions will be made in different ways such as POS and money transfers adding that Remita agents had been positioned strategically at all the airports.
She said the initiative was designed under the Presidential Enabling Environment Business Council (PEBEC) to ensure convenience and curb corruption as well as identify car parks, cargo section, chartered/unscheduled flights.
“It will help FAAN to eliminate leakages and further increase revenue base of the organization. No government official will handle cash during transactions when the exercise takes off. We are soliciting the cooperation of all airport users, concessionaires and the general public to ensure a hitch free exercise”
“The decision to adopt digital payment was as a result of the success of the Executive Order of the Federal Government in a bid to create enabling business environment in the country especially within the airports as entry points into the country,” she said.
