Aviation Ministry Seeks Investment in Cargo Terminal Development

The Federal Ministry of Aviation has held bidders’ conferences for aerotropolis and cargo terminal development, in line with the criteria in the Public Private Partnership procurement phase.

The Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika noted that the conference was in fulfilment of the provision of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission Act and National Policy on Public-Private Partnership.

This is contained in a statement signed by Sani Datti for the Special Assistant to the Minister on Public Affairs, James Odaudu.

Sirika in his remarks said, “Government is committed to the projects and that is why it is taking time because of due diligence as ICRC is superintendent of the process. As an entity regulating PPP, we follow their template so that the public gets value for the money.

“The present administration is not willing to sell public properties but willing to make them better by giving them to the private sector to make them better so that there is value for the money,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics at the Aviation Ministry, Muhammed Shehu, who doubles as Chairman, Project Delivery Team, said the ministry was in the procurement phase for the selection of preferred bidders for the projects.

He said the conference was designed to interface with the companies/consortia that were successful at the request for qualification stage and have been requalified to proceed to the request for proposal stage of the procurement phase

Punch/Hauwa Abu