Court Asks FAAN To Account For Toll Gate Revenue Since 2015

Justice Ibrahim Kala of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to make public the amount of revenue it has generated from toll gates and parking lots fees in the federal government’s airports and how much it remitted from January 2015 till January 2024.

Justice Kala, who gave the federal agency three months to comply, made the order while delivering judgment in a suit filed under the Freedom of Information Act by the Registered Trustees of The Centre for Law & Civil Culture.

The civil society organisation had dragged FAAN (the sole Respondent) before the court following the failure of the aviation authority to respond to its freedom of information request of August 24, 2022, seeking the revenue details in the public interest.

The applicant, in the suit marked FHC/L/CS/1086/2022, argued that the action of FAAN violated its obligations under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011.

In his judgment on Friday, Justice Kala granted the Applicant’s prayer, holding that it had satisfied all the conditions stipulated in Section 20 of the FOI Act.