The Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria (HURIWA) has issued an announcement calling for the arrest of Nigeria’s speedy previous Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, over what it describes as “fraudulent” exercise associated to the previous minster’s Nigeria Air venture. HURIWA calls upon the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) to research Sirika relating to the Nigeria Air venture, which was rapidly unveiled on Could 26, 2019, the final official day of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The human rights group considers the disclosing and timing of the Nigeria Air venture to be suspicious. Additional, each the Senate and Home of Representatives Committees on Aviation have declared the venture to be a fraud. HURIWA notes that Capt. Dapo Olumide, Interim Managing Director of Nigeria Air, not too long ago informed legislators that the plane paraded as a Nigeria Air airplane belongs to Ethiopian Airways and never Nigeria. In response to HURIWA, this misrepresentation constituted fraud, which the lawmakers have acknowledged as such, together with suspending all actions associated to the venture.
The Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria calls upon the EFCC to swiftly arrest, examine, and prosecute Sirika if discovered culpable. The group notes that other than the shortage of a single plane for operations, Nigeria Air has additionally didn’t safe the Air Working Certificates (AOC) from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Moreover, questions surrounding the whereabouts of the N85 billion spent on the venture stay unanswered.
The Buhari administration spent over N85 billion on Nigeria Air over eight years, together with Sirika’s tenure as the important thing venture supervisor. The Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and Compilation of Budgetary Allocations between 2016 and 2023 present information that corroborates this determine.
The Senate Aviation Committee Chairman, Sen. Biodun Olujimi, and the Home Committee on Aviation Chairman, Nnolim Nnaji, have agreed that the Nigeria Air venture was a fraud. Interim Managing Director Olumide revealed that the Boeing 737-800 plane used to unveil the nation’s nationwide profession was a respectable chartered flight from Ethiopian Airways, which it returned to after the disclosing.
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