That Nigerian Aviation industry is reeling in a debt burden of over N174 billion is an open secret.
Little do the public know that the immediate past Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah is still the prime beneficiary of this loot dressed in the costumes of debt! She works in concert with some of her cabal that she had carefully positioned in key position in the aviation industry before she was sacked. We are told the debt will be paid from income generated from the airports.
This is a needless alibi since the aviation sector is not supposed to be in debt in the first place.
However, before the former Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah was sacked, she laid the template and strategy to beat virtually all known mechanism to check corruption in the Aviation sector.
We all recall the 255million naira bullet proof limousine scam, which was never budget for but was authorized by the minster for purchase.
Even when she left office ingloriously, the former Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah is still firmly in control of happening in the aviation sector through her lackeys that are ever ready to continue to do her bid for pecuniary reasons.
All her lackeys before now were carefully positioned into prime positions within the aviation industry to handle channels of contract/ approval and collection of revenue at the airport.
Moreover, it is on record that the former Minister of Aviation Stella Odiuah influenced the complexion of the board of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
She recommended 11 members largely from her cabal for appointment against the letters of the constitution/ civil aviation act of Nigeria. With that in place all the scam contract naturally got approval without any scrutiny beside the fact that they were not advertised.
The Aircraft Operators Association of Nigeria (AOAN), pointed this out in their memo, signed by Captain Mohammed Joji, secretary general of the association . They stated that : “11 persons were announced and approved for the Board of NCAA ,which was a clear violation of the extant Act(instead of 8).
Part III: The Governing Board of the Authority; the Civil Aviation Act 2006, signed into law by the Senate on the 9th November 2006 and both the House of Representatives, the Clerk of the National Assembly and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 14th November, 2006 clearly stated the composition of the Board including the number of persons allowed to be on the Board.”
This was well reported in the media (http://www. nigeriacommunicationsweek.com. ng/logistics/ncaa-board- appointment-negates-civil- aviation- act-2006-aoan)
The memo also specifically frown at the appointment of Capt. Fola Akinkuotu as Director General of NCAA and a member of board whose business interest was at variance with his role on the board, Captain Edward Boyo, the Chief Executive of Overland Airways.
Capt Boyo was also the Proprietor of Landover Aviation, a consulting company that was given the concessioning of the new General Aviation Terminal in Abuja; A terminal that was built by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), with government funding. Furthermore, the concessioning did not go through the usual tender.
It was an open secret that the former minister’s relationship with Captain Edward Boyo was beyond official. The concern is that this relationship became the slaughter slap to share and cart away Nigeria’s collective patrimony in the aviation sector .
Captain Edward Boyo single handedly facilitated the appointment of the Capt. Fola Akinkuotu as DG of NCAA to protect the business interest of both lovebirds. Captain Edward Boyo was the chairman of board of the illorin Aviation school where Capt. Fola Akinkuotu worked.
Nevertheless, the former minister was abruptly sacked and President Jonathan, in March this year also sacked all the aviation chiefs in the troubled industry, just weeks after sacking Stella Oduah as the minister of aviation.
The Aviation buff affected by the sacked were the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, George Uriesi, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Namdi Udoh and the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency, NCAA, Fola Akinkuotu and the Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAT, Chinyere Kalu.
With immediate effect Engr. Saleh Dumona (Director Projects, FAAN) replaced Mr. George Uriesi as Managing-Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) while Engr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam (General Manager, Procurements, NAMA) replaced Engr. Nnamdi Udoh as Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).
Also Capt. Samuel Akinyele Caulcrick (Government Safety Inspector & ICAO Focal Point for Nigeria on line Aircraft Safety Information Systems, OASIS) replaced Capt. (Mrs.) Chinyere Kalu as Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT).
Furthermore, Capt. Muhktar Usman (Commissioner, Accident Investigation & Prevention Bureau, AIPB) was to replace Capt. Fola C. Akinkuotu as Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) subject to confirmation by the Senate. Engr. Benedict Adeyileka resumed as acting DG, NCAA pending the confirmation by the Senate.It is worrisome to note that Capt. Muhktar Usman is yet to be confirmed by the senate due to the fact that the former minister Stella Oduah and the remnant of her evil cabal has been generating all manner of petitions to stall the confirmation of Capt. Muhktar Usman.
They are doing this because the coming in of Capt. Usman will not favour all the illicit deals they have packaged as he is not a member of their cabal and is not from the region of the country where he can be lured to swear to a diabolical oath in their typical grove.
They are more comfortable with an acting DG, for NCAA who is more likely to be eager to be accommodated in the deals knowing that he has a short time to stay before retiring- this is where Engr. Benedict Adeyileka becomes very handy in their plot.
During the recent supervisory minister’s tour, there was a lot of window dressing. Being a staunch PDP member, the reserved Supervising Minister of Aviation, Mr. Samuel Ortom, will not want to be drag into controversy, since the government has suffered enough embarrassment from happenings in the aviation sector and did everything to avoid negative comments on the debt burden of N174billion.
To show all is not well in the Aviation sector, there is no substantive minister and a DG for a prime and strategic institution like NCAA. The Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has expressed displeasure over the delay in confirming the appointment of the Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Murktar Usman.
The aviation workers have, therefore, served the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to confirm his appointment or risks industrial action.
The body stressed that the aviation industry had suffered and was still suffering from several decisions taken by the government that caused the agencies billions of naira to remedy as was the case in the six months in which an acting DG was appointed for the NCAA, prior to the confirmation of the former DG, Capt Fola Akinkuotu, in 2013.
Curiously it was during this period that the Former minister Stella Oduah staged her 255million naira bullet proofs limousine scam.
Most of the contract that today are bandied as debt are actually a duplication of poorly executed contract in the first phase of the so called Air port remodeling project.
Non of the said contract passed through due processes. Today Stella Oduah is still the prime beneficiary of the debt burden of N174 billion, as most of the contractors are actually her front. In the next coming week our group “#Stella Oduah- Bring back our Money Campaign” will bring to the public domain all the very shady deals in the aviation sector with documents to back up our entire write up.
This will not be the first time funds has been mismanaged in the aviation sector under stella Oduah . kindly visit the link(google the headline) below to read of the former ministers typical stealing spree:
How Aviation minister Stella Oduah, FAAN MD squandered $76m BASA Funds -
http://brandiconimage. blogspot.com/2012/08/how- aviation-minister-stella- oduah-faan.html
It is high time the senate president and the speaker of the house of representative prevailed on their Committees on Aviation, to hold a joint public hearing to unravel the various contract scams in the aviation industry that has added up to the 174 billion debt burden.
Jackson Udedibe
Convener
“#Stella Oduah- Bring back our Money Campaign”
Little do the public know that the immediate past Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah is still the prime beneficiary of this loot dressed in the costumes of debt! She works in concert with some of her cabal that she had carefully positioned in key position in the aviation industry before she was sacked. We are told the debt will be paid from income generated from the airports.
This is a needless alibi since the aviation sector is not supposed to be in debt in the first place.
However, before the former Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah was sacked, she laid the template and strategy to beat virtually all known mechanism to check corruption in the Aviation sector.
We all recall the 255million naira bullet proof limousine scam, which was never budget for but was authorized by the minster for purchase.
Even when she left office ingloriously, the former Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah is still firmly in control of happening in the aviation sector through her lackeys that are ever ready to continue to do her bid for pecuniary reasons.
All her lackeys before now were carefully positioned into prime positions within the aviation industry to handle channels of contract/ approval and collection of revenue at the airport.
Moreover, it is on record that the former Minister of Aviation Stella Odiuah influenced the complexion of the board of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
She recommended 11 members largely from her cabal for appointment against the letters of the constitution/ civil aviation act of Nigeria. With that in place all the scam contract naturally got approval without any scrutiny beside the fact that they were not advertised.
The Aircraft Operators Association of Nigeria (AOAN), pointed this out in their memo, signed by Captain Mohammed Joji, secretary general of the association . They stated that : “11 persons were announced and approved for the Board of NCAA ,which was a clear violation of the extant Act(instead of 8).
Part III: The Governing Board of the Authority; the Civil Aviation Act 2006, signed into law by the Senate on the 9th November 2006 and both the House of Representatives, the Clerk of the National Assembly and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 14th November, 2006 clearly stated the composition of the Board including the number of persons allowed to be on the Board.”
This was well reported in the media (http://www. nigeriacommunicationsweek.com. ng/logistics/ncaa-board- appointment-negates-civil- aviation- act-2006-aoan)
The memo also specifically frown at the appointment of Capt. Fola Akinkuotu as Director General of NCAA and a member of board whose business interest was at variance with his role on the board, Captain Edward Boyo, the Chief Executive of Overland Airways.
Capt Boyo was also the Proprietor of Landover Aviation, a consulting company that was given the concessioning of the new General Aviation Terminal in Abuja; A terminal that was built by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), with government funding. Furthermore, the concessioning did not go through the usual tender.
It was an open secret that the former minister’s relationship with Captain Edward Boyo was beyond official. The concern is that this relationship became the slaughter slap to share and cart away Nigeria’s collective patrimony in the aviation sector .
Captain Edward Boyo single handedly facilitated the appointment of the Capt. Fola Akinkuotu as DG of NCAA to protect the business interest of both lovebirds. Captain Edward Boyo was the chairman of board of the illorin Aviation school where Capt. Fola Akinkuotu worked.
Nevertheless, the former minister was abruptly sacked and President Jonathan, in March this year also sacked all the aviation chiefs in the troubled industry, just weeks after sacking Stella Oduah as the minister of aviation.
The Aviation buff affected by the sacked were the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, George Uriesi, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Namdi Udoh and the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency, NCAA, Fola Akinkuotu and the Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAT, Chinyere Kalu.
With immediate effect Engr. Saleh Dumona (Director Projects, FAAN) replaced Mr. George Uriesi as Managing-Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) while Engr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam (General Manager, Procurements, NAMA) replaced Engr. Nnamdi Udoh as Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).
Also Capt. Samuel Akinyele Caulcrick (Government Safety Inspector & ICAO Focal Point for Nigeria on line Aircraft Safety Information Systems, OASIS) replaced Capt. (Mrs.) Chinyere Kalu as Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT).
Furthermore, Capt. Muhktar Usman (Commissioner, Accident Investigation & Prevention Bureau, AIPB) was to replace Capt. Fola C. Akinkuotu as Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) subject to confirmation by the Senate. Engr. Benedict Adeyileka resumed as acting DG, NCAA pending the confirmation by the Senate.It is worrisome to note that Capt. Muhktar Usman is yet to be confirmed by the senate due to the fact that the former minister Stella Oduah and the remnant of her evil cabal has been generating all manner of petitions to stall the confirmation of Capt. Muhktar Usman.
They are doing this because the coming in of Capt. Usman will not favour all the illicit deals they have packaged as he is not a member of their cabal and is not from the region of the country where he can be lured to swear to a diabolical oath in their typical grove.
They are more comfortable with an acting DG, for NCAA who is more likely to be eager to be accommodated in the deals knowing that he has a short time to stay before retiring- this is where Engr. Benedict Adeyileka becomes very handy in their plot.
During the recent supervisory minister’s tour, there was a lot of window dressing. Being a staunch PDP member, the reserved Supervising Minister of Aviation, Mr. Samuel Ortom, will not want to be drag into controversy, since the government has suffered enough embarrassment from happenings in the aviation sector and did everything to avoid negative comments on the debt burden of N174billion.
To show all is not well in the Aviation sector, there is no substantive minister and a DG for a prime and strategic institution like NCAA. The Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has expressed displeasure over the delay in confirming the appointment of the Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Murktar Usman.
The aviation workers have, therefore, served the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to confirm his appointment or risks industrial action.
The body stressed that the aviation industry had suffered and was still suffering from several decisions taken by the government that caused the agencies billions of naira to remedy as was the case in the six months in which an acting DG was appointed for the NCAA, prior to the confirmation of the former DG, Capt Fola Akinkuotu, in 2013.
Curiously it was during this period that the Former minister Stella Oduah staged her 255million naira bullet proofs limousine scam.
Most of the contract that today are bandied as debt are actually a duplication of poorly executed contract in the first phase of the so called Air port remodeling project.
Non of the said contract passed through due processes. Today Stella Oduah is still the prime beneficiary of the debt burden of N174 billion, as most of the contractors are actually her front. In the next coming week our group “#Stella Oduah- Bring back our Money Campaign” will bring to the public domain all the very shady deals in the aviation sector with documents to back up our entire write up.
This will not be the first time funds has been mismanaged in the aviation sector under stella Oduah . kindly visit the link(google the headline) below to read of the former ministers typical stealing spree:
How Aviation minister Stella Oduah, FAAN MD squandered $76m BASA Funds -
http://brandiconimage. blogspot.com/2012/08/how- aviation-minister-stella- oduah-faan.html
It is high time the senate president and the speaker of the house of representative prevailed on their Committees on Aviation, to hold a joint public hearing to unravel the various contract scams in the aviation industry that has added up to the 174 billion debt burden.
Jackson Udedibe
Convener
“#Stella Oduah- Bring back our Money Campaign”
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