Suspend Nigeria Air project, Reps tell Aviation Ministry

Suspend Nigeria Air project, Reps tell Aviation ministry

The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has asked the Federal Ministry of Aviation to immediately halt the Nigeria Air project.

The resolution came during an investigative hearing on Tuesday just as the Managing Director of the airline, Capt Dayo Olumide, confirmed that the unveiled airplane launched about three days to the end of the Muhammadu Buhari administration was chattered from Ethiopia for a few days to showcase the logo to Nigerians.

The House committee made resolution after Olumide and Permanent Secretary of the Aviation ministry had appeared before it.

Chairman of the committee, Nmolim Nnaji, said the Nigeria Air project was shrouded in secrecy.
He urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to constitute a high-level Presidential Committee to undertake a holistic Review of the Processes of the whole Nigeria Air project and advise the government on the way forward.
It also urged that all individuals, or groups, or organisations involved in the controversial “Nigeria Air take-off are brought to book, prosecuted and sanctioned.”
The resolution read in part, “A careful review of the process indicates the exercise to be highly opaque, shrouded in secrecy, shoddy and capable of ridiculing and tarnishing the image of Nigeria before the international community. We want to put on record, that the Committee and indeed the National Assembly had no role in the purported launch of Nigeria Air or anything related thereof.”