The Presidency, has said that the Federal Government is broke, and will not be able to fund 22 Airports across the country.
This disclosure was made by the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, while addressing State House Correspondents, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Recall, that this comes at a time when the Federal Government has boasted that the Buhari-led administration has recovered huge sums of money from looters.
Sirika said: “The money is not there. We intend to get the private sector to come and put in their money.
“Murtala Muhammed Airport was built to cater for 200,000 people per annum, but today it is doing eight million.
“The toilets and lifts in the Airport were meant to serve 200,000 people per annum, but now it is serving eight million per annum. There is no single addition on that Airport, and we are growing as a people.
“At the time it was built, we were 60 million people. Today, we are 173 million. And we cannot continue to let the airport be like that; and we do not have the money to invest and develop it.
“At a time the concessioning of some government assets started, we were not knowledgeable.” The Minister lamented.
