The federal government has denied rescinding the regulation
that pilots must declare the manifest of their flights air traffic controllers
for documentation and said that it has insisted on that rule because of safety
and security reasons.
The Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, said the government
has never contemplated dropping the idea in spite of the criticism of the
policy in some quarters, noting that pilots know that it is a policy which they
must abide by.
“It is not true that we have rescinded the policy. The
manifest declaration is mandatory. We are not holding the passenger
responsible; it is the operator because the operator is a professional and
knows the policy; that you do not fly without declaring the manifest and you
are doing so because it is a safety requirement,” the Minister said.
When an operator refuses to declare of its flights he is
penalised and if he consistently flouts the policy his operations would be
grounded, so declared the minister.
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