The Federal Government has announced plans to prune the number of security checkpoints at Nigeria’s airports.

This move became necessary after a meeting between the National Security Adviser (NSA) and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, (FAAN) at the weekend where they resolved to cut down on multiple security checks at the airports.

Managing Director of FAAN, Olubunmi Kuku, who made the disclosure, said that multiple checks at the airport have become a menace to travelers leading to may missing their flights.

She said, “On the issue of checking my baggage, it borders me so much, and that was the first inquiry that I made when I assumed office. As far back as 2011 and 2012, when I was in the industry, I worked on this with the former Minister.

“It goes beyond FAAN, a lot of those agencies, Customs, NDLEA, Quarantine, Agriculture, we now have EFCC, we have almost everybody at the airports, we had Executive order 001 during the Buhari administration to move them out under the then Vice President office, now we have the National Single Window, I have personally sat with the NSA over the last five weeks to have conversations with him as to how we will streamline the facilitation.

“We have agreed on a few things; the first one is a short-term intervention where we reduce the number of agencies at the airports because we have some that were doing just sort of routine checks, just moving around to observe rather than disturbing passengers,” she stated.