There are no spare parts for the repair of radar coverage at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.
A former Chairman of the Ministerial Committee on Airspace, Mr. Sam Akerele, said that the airport radar, which had developed fault, was about 30 year old, and as such, its spares were no longer being manufactured. According to him, what is currently being done is to get it cannibalised locally, but that a permanent solution will be for the country to fast track the completion of the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria project.
The TRACON project, which was conceived in 2001, and was awarded in 2003 with a completion period of 18 months, had suffered various setbacks due to funding and other constraints.
However, the Federal Government, set December 2009 as the new deadline to complete the TRACON project. The government had paid N9bn as balance to Thales of France, the firm handling the project.
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