The Nigerian Civil Aviation Ascendancy has threatened to pull down all unapproved structures erected on flight paths.
According to the NCAA, the structures, which include telecommunications masts, towers and high-elevate buildings, have been built without obtaining the right aviation clearances.
The airport regulator, in a verbalization on Sunday, verbally expressed it was embarking on the demolition to ascertain the safety of all aircraft landing at the sundry airports in the country.
The verbalization signed by the General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA, Mr. Fan Ndubuoke, verbally expressed, “Some of these structures have been found to be constituting major obstacles to the approach and descent of the airports for our air carriers.
“To obviate any untoward consequences, the regulatory ascendancy has appointed Messrs Noon Mast Ventures Nigerian Limited to commence a nationwide identification of such erections and pull down all such illicit structures within the airport environment and along the flight paths.”
The firm, NCAA withal verbally expressed, had been mandated to embark on a countrywide surveillance and “demand for the NCAA certificate of clearance as a condition for verification from owners of subsisting structures; and where this is nonexistent, they will be pulled down instantly.”
It stressed that owners of structures identified as illicit would bear the cost of pulling them down.
According to the verbal expression, the NCAA regulation states that those compelled by whatever reason to erect a mast or high-elevate structure within the airport environment and along flight paths are required to contact the NCAA for the Aviation Height Clearance.
It verbally expressed that once the request was made, the department in charge would proceed for inspection and give approbation for an allowable safety height or advised the owners to relocate the structure entirely where applicable.
The verbalization noted that the action was to invigorate NCAA’s regulatory resolve to ascertain safety and security of air convey in Nigeria, integrating that breaches would be viewed earnestly by the agency.