Following an alleged threat letter delivered to the airport authorities by unknown gunmen, the urgency of stepping up security at the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport, Umueri, in the Anambra-East Local Government Area of the state, has increased, ANAMBRA PEOPLE reports.
A source from the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport confirmed that hoodlums threatened to pull down the entire airport if the order prohibiting work at the airport on Mondays was disobeyed with respect to flight operations and other activities at the airport on Mondays.
The source claimed that after receiving the alleged threat notice, airport management instructed staff to temporarily refrain from reporting to work on Mondays.
The insider also recalled that a female traveller was attacked by criminals at some point in August of this year, but she escaped unharmed.
The source also mentioned that a man had been brutally murdered by thugs along the airport road this year, and that urgent security measures, particularly at night, were required.
Apparently, thugs stop airport employees along the road and forcefully take their bags and phones from them.
However, the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport was well protected by the police and other security agencies, according to DSP Ikenga Tochukwu Anthony, Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Command.
©Daily Independent
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