By LOUIS IBA
Indigenous carrier, Arik Air, is seeking greater police presence at the nation’s airports as panacea to end the incessant and embarrassing incursion of unwanted persons at the restricted areas of the airport and halt a trend where such persons sneak into the airport and enter the wheel-well of aircraft as stowaways.
The airline in the last three years has found battling stowaway with one dead body of a stowaway found at the wheel-well of its New York bound aircraft recently, thus calling to question the security measures put in place by the airline to safeguard the entrance of unwanted persons into its aircraft.
Chris Ndulue, Managing Director of Arik, who spoke while hosting the Taiwo Lakanu newly posted Commissioner of Police, Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos demanded that Police should have access to every part of the airport and should not be prevented from working at the restricted areas.
Ndulue wondered why Nigeria barred police from some sections of the airport, remarking that in other parts of the world, the Police had unfettered access to all parts of the airport in order to effectively maintain peace and ensure the protection of passengers and other airport users.
Ndulue,  pledged to work with the new Commissioner of Police to improve security in its operations.