What a Securiport Fee Projection Can and Cannot Show About Gambian Airport Revenue

Archive note: the original publication date could not be verified. March 14, 2021 is an assigned catalogue date for this record.

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An online post referring to 2025 projections for Securiport and the Gambian government has drawn attention to a basic accounting question. A projected collection is not the same as money actually received, and neither figure can be verified from a screenshot without a documented passenger count and revenue split.

The airport security fee charged at Banjul International Airport has been the subject of public debate since collections began. Earlier agreements and audit accounts described a US$20 charge, subject to exemptions, and identified revenue-sharing obligations between the operator and public authorities.

The Gambia's National Audit Office identified discrepancies between expected collections and reported revenue for an earlier period. Auditors also questioned account reconciliations, payment records and the treatment of government shares.

Any responsible 2025 projection must state its assumptions, including arriving and departing passenger volumes, who is exempt, the collection rate, foreign-exchange treatment and the contractual share that each party receives. Forecasts cannot be presented as evidence of fraud or profit without those records.

The archived social post did not preserve the actual projection table. This article consequently explains the financial issues rather than inventing figures attributed to the absent image.