Following months of closure to activities occasioned by the need to rebuild major aspects the airport especially the runway, the Enugu International Airport maybe reopened for flight operation.
The airport which had been closed for renovation is wearing a new look and is almost ready and is expected to be opened after the Covid -19 lockdown.
According to IgbereTV the renovation is being carried out by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).
Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, said work at the airport would have been completed in the early part of the year but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic which forced the government to close all airports in the country.
According to atqnews.com the minister pointed out that though the federal government had closed the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, alongside others, as one of the proactive measures to contain the spread of the deadly disease, such necessary decision couldn’t have affected the ongoing work at the airport if not that the company’s workers downed tools.
Senator Sirika disclosed that the federal government introduced “glass mesh” in the Enugu airport runway to strengthen it and help in retaining the structure for a very long time, stressing that the new technology, before now, was only introduced at the Abuja airport.
His words: “Many other issues like the Cargo for this airport, other infrastructure, the terminal building under rehabilitation including the air conditioner system in the new international airport being built by the Chinese and of course the perimeter fencing, drainage and water supply, among others, will all be completed in this airport”.
