AWKA – The need to intensify security at the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport, Umueri, in Anambra-East Local Government Area of the state has become paramount following an alleged threat notice sent to the airport authority by gunmen.
A source from the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport, who spoke with our correspondent under anonymity, said the threat notice from hoodlums has halted flight operations and other activities at the airport on Mondays as hoodlums threatened to pull down the entire airport, if the order on no work at the airport on Mondays was disobeyed.
Following the alleged threat notice, the source said the airport management has instructed workers not to come to work on Mondays in the interim.
The source also recalled that sometime in August this year, a female passenger was attacked by hoodlums around the airport but was not killed.
The source also recalled that a man was killed in cold blood by hoodlums along the airport road this year, adding that there was an urgent need to tighten security at the airport especially at night time.
It was gathered that hoodlums waylay staff of the airport along the road and forcefully snatch their phones and their bags from them.
However, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Command, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu Anthony, told our correspondent that the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport was well secured by the police and other security agencies.
