Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday paid an unscheduled visit to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport and urged the health workers, security personnel to ensure everyone coming into the country is properly screened and profiled in order to prevent the spread of the deadly virus in the country.
Sanwo-Olu said everyone traveling into the country must not escape being screened and profiled to enable the government to manage the case effectively.
The governor, who was received by the top management of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN and conducted around the facilities at the airport as well as efforts being made to screen those coming into the country, said that the virus has no respect for status, race, and colour.
He said: “It’s a working visit. Lagos is the biggest border through which people come into the country over 70 percent of travel into the country takes place in Lagos. What this means is that we need to heighten our level of preparedness and monitoring.
“We need to encourage our airport workers on the need to do what is required of them because what they are doing is a national assignment
“Everybody must be properly screened. It is not that I know this somebody or I know that one or this one is a VIP. Everyone one coming into the country must undergo screening”
Speaking with one of the Lagos environmental officers attached to the airport, Governor Sanwo-Olu said: “Please make sure you get the correct information of anyone coming into the country. You must insist on getting their name and address. You must be firm but polite in your demand.”
