The scarcity of aviation fuel, popularly
called Jet-A1, did not only disrupt flight activities at airports
across the country on Tuesday, but also affected private and government
programmes in the Federal Capital Territory.
It was learnt that several programmes in
Abuja were either postponed or delayed as key personnel who were to
anchor strategic meetings could not arrive on schedule or did not arrive
at all.
Several domestic airlines stated that
the scarcity of the product had resulted in the delay or outright
cancellation of some of their flights.
Hundreds of air travellers were left
stranded at the domestic terminals of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in
Lagos, as the airlines were forced to either cancel or reschedule most
of their flights due to the scarcity of aviation fuel.
As of 4pm, stranded passengers heading
for Abuja from the Lagos airport were unable to book substitute flights
as all flights to the Federal Capital Territory had been fully booked.
At the Federal Ministry of
Transportation in Abuja, a programme that was meant to hold around noon
did not commence until around 2.30pm despite the fact that the Minister
of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, was seated for hours waiting for
committee members who were supposed to make presentations at the event.
It was later gathered that the committee
members could not make it to Abuja as a result of the problems caused
by the non-availability of aviation fuel, which affected their flights.
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