CLCC demands FAAN’s compliance with court order authorising disclosure of revenue

The Registered Trustees of the Centre for Law & Civil Culture (CLCC) has asked the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to comply fully with the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which ordered it to disclose the revenue generated from tollgates and parking lots’ fees in all Federal Government-owned airports.

Justice Ibrahim Kala, who granted the order, also compelled FAAN (the respondent) to provide details of the revenue to a public interest applicant, the Registered Trustees of the Centre for Law & Civil Culture.

The judge gave the agency three months to comply with the order.

The applicant filed the suit following the respondent’s failure to accede to its freedom of information request of August 24, 2022.

However, while FAAN complied with the order by disclosing the total sum generated from January 2015 till date, it failed to provide information on how much it remitted to the government from January 2015 to January 2024.

But in a letter dated April 18, 2024, the Executive Secretary of CLCC, Abdulganeey Imran, reminded FAAN of the need to fully comply with the order of the court.

The letter read: “We observed with great concern that you only complied with the first leg of the order of the court by availing us with the evidence of the total sum so generated from January 2015 till date but flagrantly and deliberately disobeyed and/or disregarded the second leg of the order of the court, which further mandated your agency to provide “the evidence of yearly remittance of such sum so generated per year from January 2015 to January 2024 within three months from today.

“We hereby demand full compliance with the judgment of the court delivered by Justice Ibrahim Ahmad Kala and request that you avail us with the evidence of remittance of such sum in conformity with the aforesaid judgment of the court.”