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Nigeria Air, a sham – Airline operators







Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, has described the bidding approval and unveiling processes of the botched Nigeria Air as a fraud.

AON also said the failed project was set up to hoodwink Nigerians and kill the country’s indigenous airlines.

The group’s President, Alhaji Abdulmunaf Yunusa, in a statement, commended Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, for suspending the project.

He said: “The bold and patriotic declarations and orders made by the court today leaves no one in doubt that the entire bidding approval and so called unveiling processes of the purported national carrier was nothing other than a sham set up to hoodwink Nigerians. It was also a surreptitious plan to kill Nigerian indigenous airlines and handover the commonwealth of Nigeria’s huge aviation market with over 85 Bilateral Air Services Agreements, BASA, around the world to Ethiopian Airlines through the back deor without investing a penny into the Nigerian economy and in an attempt to satisfy the whims and caprices of some selfish and unpatriotic individuals.

“We therefore thank the court for standing tall in the face of untold pressure from very high quarters and for exonerating ADN and other well-meaning Nigerian indigenous airlines for going to court to protect the interest of Nigeria as well as proving truly to be the only hope of the common man.

“We equally thank and laud President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government as represented by the current Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, for suspending the Nigeria Air process as planned by the former Minister of Aviation, and for being hold and courageous on this issue. Mr Keyamo saw the truth and aligned with the truth for the sake of the country.”

Recall that Justice A. Allagoa of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday ruled that the sale of Nigeria Air to Ethiopian Airlines was null and void.

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