Metro The Shame That Is Murtala Muhammed International Airport By Japheth Omojuwa -Sahara Reporters

[abujagirl]

How much does a country need to keep its busiest international airport from running like an oven? The Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos has to be the hottest airport in the world. It is easily the hottest I have travelled through and I have been through quite a lot of airports. Even the Nairobi airport in Kenya that was engulfed by fire is not as hot as the MMIA.

You should not even get started with comparing it with the airport in Cape Town or Johannesburg, South Africa. Ghana’s Kotoka International Airport, Accra may be small but it does not meet you with the repulsiveness the MMIA greets you with. Even the Eyadema airport in Togo has a better atmosphere. The Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal trumps ours by light years. This is speaking of African countries. We dare not try to compare with airports outside Africa. As soon as you descend from the plane to go through the immigration point, the feeling is as though you were being punished for daring to travel to Nigeria – if a foreigner – or you were being punished for daring to leave the country – if a Nigerian. The saddest part of this reality is that money is not the reason why we have an airport that makes us look like we are a people without shame. Or, are we?

SOURCE: Sahara Reporters

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[phealip]

It's not that we don't have shame - heck! It's our God given right to possess and embrace shame. The only problem is that we really don't care. An average Nigerian only cares when you touch what he owns.

Before he started mentioning all the airports he has been through, he should have asked how many of those countries have Stella Oduah as Aviation minister.