Nigeria endorses protocol on offences aboard flights

The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika has deposited ratification on ‘Protocol to Amend the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, done at Montreal on 4 April 2014’ also known as “The Montreal Protocol 2014”.

Nigeria deposited it’s ratification with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) on Wednesday at the United Nation agency’s headquarters in Montreal, Canada.

A statement from James

Odaudu, the Director, Public Affairs, Federal Ministry of Aviation said this feat is in line with Nigeria’s efforts to support air laws against unruly behavior on board aircraft

While depositing the Protocol, Sirika said: “This is historic for Nigeria having been the Twenty-second state to deposit the ratification and give strength to the implementation which will come into effect from 1 January 2020.

“Nigeria will continue to support any law that will make air transport even safer. And this is one of them” he said.

Dr. Fang Liu, the Secretary General of ICAO while accepting the document attested to the fact that ICAO needs 22 countries to ratify this protocol for it to become effected and Nigeria is the 22nd state to have completed the process.

“I am delighted to announce that with this deposit, the Montreal Protocol 2014 will enter into force on 1 January 2020. I wish to commend Nigeria for being the twenty-second state to have completed the ratification process of this instrument,” Dr. Liu said.