Okoro2015:
Oshiomhole should be humble as his khaki outfit struggles to portend. What concerns GEJ with some people who decides not to live up to their statutory responsibilities? He should also blame GEJ for enforcing free and fair election that saw him retaining that office. He was/is no match for Anenih's plan. Let him not be the proverbial overfed nwanza.

obey d rule b4 complain…y complainin sef,wen ur an advocate of good govt

Lets leave GEJ and Oshiomhole out of this matter. The question to ask is can the Korean pilot fly a plane his home country without paying aerodrome and manifest or is Nigeria a country where every Tom and Dick can come and flaut rules because our system doesnt work. The blame should be on the Pilot.

kITA TITA: Please what's the emergency that requires recalling an airborne aircraft in order to collect aerodrome fees. If you have made a mistake of allowing the aircraft to lift off, let it fly to its destination. An aircraft cannot escape just like that. The aviation guys are not doing the Presdent a favor. They make it easy for watchers to insinuate anything. Would they have recalled the aircraft if it was carrying the president or the PDP Chairman?

I like your point and would like Nigerians to known that the aviation minister is acting Gej script; it happened to Amechi and many people of Gej tribe/apologist started talking trash until it was discovered that the aircraft documents were in-order, the aviation minister ain't worth being a minister at all because she is messing up the aviation sector and all what gej is doing will definitely make him loss 2015 presidential election even if he wins PDP primaries.

How else would Oshiomhole's Special Adviser (SA) speak! He's under a bounden duty to speak with severed conscience like a paid servant of a human god, an elected god who is not otherwise subject to any law. All these rubbish must stop.

God bless our governor, God bless Nigeria: Nigeria will survive this trash Amen

there is more that meet the eyes,do they want to tell me that they did not knw that he has been using it,how many years has oshiomole being in office that they are grounding his aircraft.

Something MUST be wrong with these foreigners working in Nigeria for disregarding our LAWS. Some Lebanese in the of guise of operating supermarket biz were busy trading in deadly weapons and sponsoring Boko Haram,The Pilot to Gov Oshiomonle's Chopper-a Phillino knows rules refused to pay the needed fee but chosed to do the wrong thing in order to blame it on President Jonathan and give room to the Opposition politicans to score cheap political points. Gov Oshiomonle shouldn't be quick to blame the President for the misadventure of his hired pilot because Gov Oshiomonle is one Governor who believes in the doctrine of IGR-Internally Generated Revenue.Sometimes in Octerber 2012,First Bank and several other businesses in Benin City were shot down by Oshiomonle Govt for not paying the needed tax to EDO STATE Govt.Why should Gov Oshiomole fly in an air craft that is evading tax/fee to the Aviation industry.Teachers in Edo State are currently on strike because of Gov Oshiomonle inability or failure to comply with NUT agreement,and he is busy flying above the heads of Edo state people from his GRA bedroom instead of the approved airport.It is becoming clearer by the day that ALL the anomalies the PDP govt is being accused of by the ACN/APC apologists/members,they in fact are most guilty of it-starting Gov Amaechi(APC renegade) and NOW Gov Oshiomole.Please LEAVE GEJ out of this APC LAWLESSNESS

ballabriggs: Jona playing his ogogoro politics again. As the pilot rightly said, these are bills that are usually paid later and that is the norm. It is not your Upper Iweaka motor park where you give mpiawazu boys money before take-off. The norm for most corporate organisations is that bills are accumulated and paid much later after the transaction date. They can accumulate debts and pay through standing orders with their banks. It should not be a pay as you go service.

The helicopter should only have been stopped from flying if they had exceeded a credit limit and not on a single transaction. Even if you felt they should have paid before take-off, the ideal thing is to allow the flight and issue a request for payment later, it is common sense.

We all know this is a continuation of Jona's ogogoro politics. These organisations should be built on safety principles and rules. However, controls are daily being circumvented to meet Jona's disgusting ambition. It is dangerous, it is criminal as it is a threat to those who these institutions are meant to serve and also ensure their safety.

Tomorrow a plane will crash, Labaran Maku will come out with his foul mouth and tell us how "it was almost me". ANIMALS!!!

I guess u can also file the necessary documents and manifest after the journey? Let us b rational for once and realise that nobody is above the law.

brixton: cheap propaganda, we are wiser now and can see your scripts even bfo u present it to the public. Same dictator that allowed free and fair election return you to Dennis Osadebe house without rigging his ruling party to the vacant seat? Oga governor pay up your dues before gettin ona chopper next time

Your Oga at the top should not have allowed free and fair election in edo and see the affect it will have on his administration. Him for fall himself for hand bad and also see edo people protest all over the media.

Oneday, somebody will find shit in their compound, and blame it on GEJ; oneday high temperature will be blamed on GEJ; their baby cries, its GEJ. What problem is new in Nigeria today, yet they were all blamed on him.

The fact remains that we should expect more of this, we have a very good aviation minister that is insisting that things must be done right no matter who is involved, unlike what is obtained in the past.

sammyj:
Your Oga at the top should not have allowed free and fair election in edo and see the affect it will have on his administration. Him for fall himself for hand bad and also see edo people protest all over the media.

GOV OSHIO is leaving in the past,he will be resisted by the BINI/ ESAN people if he continues in this BRAIN-WASH and SLAVE mentality to TINUBU and BUHARI. Prof Ambrose Ali was more popular than him,yet he lived and died a frustrated politician. Gov Oshio today's noise may haunt him in future:learn from history

Degis:

What is this one saying?. Just another slowpoke comment

why not shut up,if u dont have anything to say,someone explain everything u need to know,u are calling urself slowpoke.

I wonder how u pple take dey pass exam 4 sch?pls make una dey story very !s una pass any comment.pls,make una tell me where in news say na edo state helicopter osho used or na chrtered own?frm d pilot's story.what will take 10-15mins now takes almost 2hrs.Pls n pls,these pple no dey give una money bt na go carry their matter 4 head.na wa ooooo

You said that, people made abuse statement here, (ON NAIRALAND). What of you? Bird of the same feather.

touch4mony: God bless u my dear,so because some 1 is governor ur now above the law but if a commoner does the same thing he gets 45 yrs jail term.what a nation

you shud construct ursef well befor mak any comment here. Do you remember during subsidy period when oshiomole support GEJ. Remember. Must all support ur wish and if I dnt support you must be the end. Kindly think that govt is abt all.

How did nama clerk prevent oshimole from going to anambra? Did the clerk confisticate all his vehicles too? Benin to anambra is 45minutes normally. With the reckless speed of governors' convoys, oshi would have made the journey in 20 mins sef

Just wondering aloud that its does now appear to seem that the aviation ministry & its parastatals are all out to net in all its revenue accruals. Smarting from its last year unsavoury debt recovery experience with Arikair which had to resort to political blackmail & arm~twisting to escape paying up on its indebtedness. The Edo state govt should sue the operators of the chopper for breach of contract rather than conjecturing being the target of a witch~hunt over non~existent political squabbling.

GEJ Governors and public officials in PDP fly everyday without paying airport fees, infact sometimes for months, yet NAMA does not intercept their flight. They do so only when opposition parties are involved. I bet us if the house of reps moves in to investigate NAMA's records, they will discover to their chargin, just how culpable, mischievous and witch hurting NAMA has suddenly become.

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sweetponmo:
Thank u o! The people attacking the governor on this forum are far from the truth. Perhaps they are sponsored attack dogs of the FG.

Did you not read that the pilot was asked to submit a manifest of his passengers which he could not because he claimed not to know their names? Opposition or not, the pilot was wrong and he thought he could get away with anything because he has been flying for years and works for a Nigerian Gov. When one helicopter crashed, we were all out on the pdp guys for using state helicopters for private outings. This Gov is doing same. LEts face it, they are all of the same. Do not be deceived. So if one is punished now, let's be happy.

Nuke:

Did you not read that the pilot was asked to submit a manifest of his passengers which he could not because he claimed not to know their names? Opposition or not, the pilot was wrong and he thought he could get away with anything because he has been flying for years and works for a Nigerian Gov. When one helicopter crashed, we were all out on the pdp guys for using state helicopters for private outings. This Gov is doing same. LEts face it, they are all of the same. Do not be deceived. So if one is punished now, let's be happy.

Nonsense and rubbish. So if I fly a helicopter to Epe to pick a passenger going to VI, I will then fly back to MMA to file your so called manifest before heading to the helipad at VI?

Trash and a waste of man hours just to fulfill some disgusting political ambition.

gboss4sure:

Na 2015 u go know say no be to tok BIG and make noise be the main thing. You still learning politics, by the way How much do they(acn) pay you? I can triple the amount only if you can start saying the truth.

The truth is a defense for itself, if U have the truth U wouldn't be offering people money to say it. Truth is Oshiomole erred, fact remains GEJ is a failure. If U disagree pls state out Ur facts, don't just yap on like a mad dog. Bad roads(Lagos-Ibadan, Benin-Ore), total darkness(as also confirm by minister for power), unemployment, corruption in †ђξ highest places(police pension fraud, subsidy fraud) insecurity(Boko haram) etc are ​♍Ɣ own facts. Do U disagree? State Ur facts pls.

blink182: oh come of it! Are you trying to tell me when you board a flight you walk up to the pilot to ask 'have you paid all your landing fees?'

What is the business of a passenger and the fees a pilot has to pay? His business is to pay his fare, relax and enjoy the trip.

These fees we are talking of, most commercial airlines pay monthly not on 'pay as you go basis'. Please we should be very thorough in trying to defend the wrong thing.

I watched itv today to hear what NAMA had to say only for the clerk to say his boss will give an answer for what happened.

We cannot be deceived, we all know the truth and it must prevail. 2015 will go a long way to justify the just.

Don't mind the ignominious slowpoke!!! Some persons are brain dead from the shit hole dey were born.. Do people as pilots before boarding flights for air tariffs or aerodome fees or landing permits... PDP sycophants should commit hari kiri their time is up.. Bastards!!

Even a premier here in Ausralia equivalent to a governor was once arrested and fined for a traffic offence. Stupid nigerian governors want to live above the law

The men around Jonathan are fast destroying him by the day.If they fall apart with anyone they set a trap to embarras him at any given opportunity.Lets wait and see

The responses of some on issues bothering on oshiomole's ordeal is worrisome especially when when we can see the trend of events happening in our politics as played by our politicians vis a vis the outcome of the NGF, mr fix it and the new position as bot chairman power that he's using to humiliate the governor.it is pertinent to know that heavens cant fall on one head.

Unfortunately no natural cause of dealth in ds part of d world. Whoever die is killed by someone or enemy or witch. Sentiments is over d truth

I think d fear oof sentiment is d begining of wisdom now b4 parastatals do their job

Am waiting 4 d day road safety with stop gov convors for driving recklessly