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taharqa:

So you can comment on this one, faaa??

Haba!! Leave am alone jorr.....amnesia bin catch am for dat LCC thread. Afterall anybody can fall sick.

Gej would setup a commitee to look into it.

Onlytruth: Oga Jona put on your thinking cap.
We Ndigbo believe that our daughter is being ganged up on. She is a victim of never do wells in Nigeria, people who want your failure in office.
Leave our daughter alone to do her job. The people behind her travails are the trouble with Nigeria.
If you go through with the wishes of haters and witches in Nigeria, do not be shocked if we Ndigbo dump you too!
Nuff said.

The simple question you should ask is, was 255m used to buy cars for the minister?
forget ethnic partisanship

Sack the ugly bleaching ho3 .

Sloan:

She is bleaching look at her finger knuckles! BOTOX all over her face, no wonder no husband would have her, so fake and plastic! What a shame! Well, it doesn't matter whether she goes to hell to sign any agreement beit landmark, watermark or airmark, SHE IS A THIEF! The question is can another corrupt GEJ fire a thieving Odulah? Na siddon look we dey!

and so what? What's your bleeping business

“They are trying to destroy evidence as well. The sensible thing would have been for the president to suspend her before launching an enquiry. Now she is still in charge and at liberty to destroy evidence.”

The bolded is all I need to see doubt Jonathan's honesty in seeing justice done.

E-X-P-O-S-E-D!!!
The Gang Up Against Stella Oduah.
By Captain Ore Kingsley.

**they accused her of blocking their means of livilihood and will do everthing to push her out..
**one wonders, why the DG with initiates a contract, approved by National assembly and they are attacking a Minister that was not involved in the process.

It is highly outrageous to buy two vehicles, any kind of vehicles for... N255 million. Yet, in saying this, let it be known that it is also outrageous for mainstream media to rely on reports of online media, which most of the time are laced with gossips and rumours, for serious aviation reports. Now that Nigerians are outraged about the exaggerated reports on the purchase of the vehicles, the facts of the matter have been eclipsed as the first report always finds a listening ear.

But it is good to deliberate on the motive behind the report and preceding reports before this last one. Princess Stella Oduah as Minister of Aviation has jolted the apple cart. In her strive to make desired changes in the sector, she has excavated the status quo. There are certain trends that have defined the aviation sector. There are always since 1999 those who use lopsided agreements and contracts to milk the aviation agencies. There are also those who use aviation related associations to sustain their lives and the aviation union executives rely on agency heads and succeeding ministers to make money in the sector.

Stella came and changed all that. These people were denied their source of material life by Stella and these are people behind the forces that coalesced against her.

It is said in the industry that two people before 2011 made noticeable changes in the sector. One was Peter Igbenedion who was the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) during the Abacha years. In retrospect also, kudos goes to Mrs. Kema Chikwe who was also the Minister of Aviation in the first tenure of Chief Obasanjo as Nigerian President. Story had it that she was pressured to leave, just as Stella is being pressured now and that when she was eased out, broom was used to sweep out her footsteps from her office. But when she left, the same people acknowledged and still acknowledge that before Stella, Kema Chikwe was the best performing Minister of Aviation since civilian rule in 1999.

When Oduah was appointed, there were three subsisting agreements that were controversial. One of them was Maevis which was managing the revenue of FAAN. FAAN said that the agreement was lopsided against the agency to the extent that the agency did not know how much accrued in its coffers as Maevis every month gave it a hand out, a situation where a principal is being handed over money by its contractor. The agreement, to the agency was obnoxious and it was eating its revenue and hampering development of the 22 airports under its management.

Three Ministers came when the agreement was enforced, including Felix Hyat who just witnessed its unveiling, Babatunde Omotoba who was there when FAAN workers started crying out against the agreement and alleged rip of FAAN by the agreement. He did nothing. Felicia Njeze came and smiled away few years later without doing anything about it. Stella came and did something. She revoked the agreement!

She was attacked with all kinds of arsenal, including media and court scud missiles. She remained unshaken. Other Ministers did not have the courage to do anything because of the Giant Eagle that facilitated the agreement and the agreement was aimed to rip off the agencies and empower some individuals.

Another agreement was the Pan Express agreement which gave the company the right to collect revenues from cargo and pay FAAN certain amount of revenue every month. That agreement was easily eased out because it did not come from the Big Eagle. Ironically that was the only decent agreement that was drawn not to strip FAAN its revenue; in fact, before the company started work, that source of cargo revenue for FAAN was in limbo, but it was done away quickly as soon as contrived agitation against it started.

Then the big masquerade of agreement which is still subsisting: the Bi Courtney concession agreement to build the domestic terminal in Lagos which initially was given for 12 years and was later extended controversially for 36 years without the expected approval of the Federal Executive Council, as Obasanjo recommended when the letter for the extension was presented to him by the then Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. In the letter requesting for the extension, Obasanjo responded, “No.” That it should be taken to FEC for approval. The approval never took place and since then Bi Courtney has done everything possible to use the courts to get the extension and it remains at best controversial.

How did Oduah cross the way of Bi Courtney? The company realising that it did not have enough apron to park aircraft in MMA2, claimed that the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) belonged to it and pointed out a clause in the agreement that said no other domestic airport terminal should be built in Lagos without deferring to Bi Courtney. Oduah defiantly made it clear that GAT which she dismantled and rebuilt under one year, did not belong to Bi Courtney.

Then there was the AIC Limited which claimed that many years ago a portion of land meant for expansion of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos terminal was given to the company to build hospitality facility. But for years nothing was done at the portion land and recently with terror threats and the inevitable need to have another terminal at the Lagos airport, it became unrealistic to build such facility at that portion of land. Stella Oduah overruled that quest.

The highly placed, powerful people behind these companies have been injured by the Minister. But her purpose is obvious: that for the aviation industry to develop and progress there must be an end to these rip offs and that the assets that are meant for Nigerians should not be coveted by a few highly placed people at the expense of over 160 million Nigerians. The war has been drawn. Stella Oduah must go!

The Foot Soldiers

As stated earlier, the labour union leaders and some association executives rely on aviation agency heads to sustain their existence. A former Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) kept the Aviation Round Table (ART) leaders on a payroll. Other agencies like FAAN, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) give them contracts. But these contracts stopped when Oduah became the Minister. In protest, the attacks against her came in torrents to the extent that the President of ART, Captain Dele Ore at one time alleged that Oduah threatened to kill him. Some aspects of the media made a savoury of it.

Two major associations in the sector, the Air Transport Service Senior Staff Association (ATSSSAN) and the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) have fought and won many wars, so they are feared in the industry. So their leaders became very powerful, so whenever they needed money they would call a press conference and attack one agency or another or the existing Minister. They would be placated, of course with “gifts” to keep them quiet for some time. This shameful trend has continued to this day.

That was why a wise former Director General of NCAA decided to keep the ATSSSAN president permanently in his payroll. He gave his wife a job in NCAA; bought him a car and many times a year sponsor him to overseas training with large estacode. He fully bought his loyalty. The same ATSSSAN president capitalised on the labour feuds with airlines and agencies to fix his other siblings at Aero Contractors and NAMA.

So the major problem of Oduah is that she left this group of people in the lurch. There is the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) whose officers are permanent because for over 12 years it never conducted elections. The Assistant Secretary General of the association, Mohammed Tukur has used that platform to sustain his life in the industry. He became a propagandist. This became apparent when he and others in AON fought against Arik Air in favour of Bi Courtney, when Arik Air insisted that it was not going to operate from MMA2, the new terminal built by Bi Courtney.

Curious people then were asking: Is AON fighting for the welfare of the airlines of that of Bi Courtney. Many journalists who were shocked by that shameful act did not write the story. Today, it has ceased to surprise anybody because the man is unpretentious that he is a paid propagandist. As he campaigned against Oduah today, he can campaign for her tomorrow.

Stella Oduah underestimated this force or she had pre-empted them. But she must have believed that she would win most of them over by her development strides. In under two years Oduah changed the face of many airports in the country. She rebuilt many and expanded others. She completed what remained of the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria, provided the most sophisticated weather reading equipment for the Nigeria Meteorological Agency, and acquired low level wind shear equipment, the weather Doppler radar and low level wind shear alert system which have been installed in all the airports. These equipment ensure that accurate weather data are given to the pilots. Recently the Minister acquired modern equipment for the Accident Investigation Bureau that in less than one week after the Associated flight crash the preliminary report of the accident was out.

The Minister who is expected to be praised by these “activists” who presumably love the industry because they have spent most of their years there, have nothing now but derision for her. They described her remodelling of the airport terminals as mere paint work. They said she has not done anything in the industry and they have concentrated in characterizing her only legacy in the industry as “slippery tiles.” But above all, and this is the critical point, they also accuse her of what they now characterise as “chopping” alone.
One wonders, why the DG with initiates a contract, approved by National assembly and they are attacking a Minister that was not involved in the process.

That is the crux of the matter: she “chops” alone. That is also the grouse the members of the National Assembly: the Minister of Aviation is “chopping” Alone. They believe that for awarding all these contracts for the re-modelling of airport facilities that so much money must have accrued to her. Who will question that when it has always been the trend in Nigeria?

Oduah must have realised by now that many people who talk about development in the aviation industry are really not interested in development; they are interested in their pockets. And as she had closed all the doors against them to make money from “their industry” what does she want them to do? Clap for her for improving the airports. In fact, Captain Dele Ore in his anger and frustration, allegedly said she must go now; that the armoured car bought for her “will not save her.” That was a veiled threat. That also showed how desperate they are!

There are two issues that must be pointed out. If Stella Oduah is removed it means the old, status quo which is anti-development has triumphed and it can be predicted that as the airport terminals where work is going on presently are, so they will remain for many years to come. It has happened in the past. If Oduah is left to do her job, this attack will continue but at the end Nigerians will have better airport facilities and improved air transport sector to show for her efforts.

Captain Kingsley, an aviation consultant, sent in this article from Lagos.

“The president hardly feels this angry over an issue. I can tell you that except he has a change of mind, Oduah is a goner already.”

She is really a goner ohhhhh

Onlytruth: Oga Jona put on your thinking cap.
We Ndigbo believe that our daughter is being ganged up on. She is a victim of never do wells in Nigeria, people who want your failure in office.
Leave our daughter alone to do her job. The people behind her travails are the trouble with Nigeria.
If you go through with the wishes of haters and witches in Nigeria, do not be shocked if we Ndigbo dump you too!
Nuff said.

u r d god of fools

See Biafrans defending a criminal ,Igbos na wa ? .with this kind of mindset Biafra is dead on arrival, and forget about the presidency.

how this 1 take affect ASUU strike??

Bliss4Lyfe:

Which Presidency? The one we left over to u lot? Who was the first to be President, Army Chief and President General? The same way we have collected the Army shall we collect the Presidency. Who is ur President now? Who will be ur President later? I dey laugh oooo!

Bunch of confused hunter gatherers

Both the querier and the person queried are national thieves. Only God can save Nigeria from bad government that influences our growth & development as a nation negatively and causes us drawbacks & retrogressions.

Bunch of clueless thieves in sheep clothing. OLE + OLE = OLEs

Bpriest: See Biafrans defending a criminal ,Igbos na wa ? .with this kind of mindset Biafra is dead on arrival, and forget about the presidency.

Oh no Please don't do that to us. We're desperate, its now a matter of life and death .

Anu mpama!!!

The honourable thing for Mr. Jona was to relieve the "honourable" minister of her post b4 conducting proper investigation into the matter. But I doubt if he can ever do that even after the on-going investigation, since ambition has blinded his eyes and ke knows fully well that he still needs neighbour 2 neighbour to execute his ambition. God, the defender of the helpless sees, and may He reward you all duly for wasting our public funds while there are many jobless and underemployed youths out there.

signz:

Oh no Please don't do that to us. We're desperate, its now a matter of life and death .

Anu mpama!!!

Ndi ara.
Why do you guys still accept gov/official appointments from Nigeria? I thought u were Biafrans

Bpriest: Ndi ara.
Why do you guys still accept gov/official appointments from Nigeria? I thought u were Biafrans

So e dey pain u as we dey collect am? Ehya, Ndo

Bpriest: Ndi ara.
Why do you guys still accept gov/official appointments from Nigeria? I thought u were Biafrans

How old are you?

ballabriggs: President Jonafraud GCFR, GRAND CRIMINAL OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC, querying a criminal?

Akabo le le O. Na this one be the real transformation.

Pls lets stop these unnecessary assault to our president , for Christ sake what is wrong with us , what's wrong has the president don to warrant this kind of abuse?
Mods here are not doing their work at all.

Sloan:

She is a thief and now being queried by her (also thieving) oga, how is that anyone's fault? You people pretend like if Stella's stomach is full and fat, then all ibos are also full and fat despite that several thousands are scrounging for a mean selling la casera and spare parts in every part of Nigeria. Well, save your breath - rather go and present how you want to go back to your se region in the coming national conference! When Odulah becomes minister in your region, may she steal to her hearts content! Just get your people to get their acts together and move out of the Western Region. That is all I care for now and I can't wait for this GEJ to make the conference VERY QUICK!

you were making sense as regards your comment on the minister. Corruption has destroyed this country, it does not matter which ethnic group these offenders originate from. If found culpable they should be brought to book. When you started spewing this nonsense about ibos i just had to conclude this is just one of those little minds posting nonsense again. I used to enjoy nairaland when i first discovered it; but it seems like the moderators have suddenly become dormant.. Most people where indifferent about other ethnic groups not until they began reading hate comments on sites like nairaland. Such comments have the propensity to sway your opinion if you think like one of them little minds . Nairaland has propagated dislike among the various ethnic and religious groups in nigeria. I think if the moderators cannot do a good job hiding these nonsense comments, then the government has to do something about nairaland and all other sites bringing so much division in the country.

From Sahara Reporters
Even as the minister of aviation began a new spin today that the BMW armored cars purchased by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for her use were done on "hire-purchase", SaharaReporters has unearthed new details about the $1.6 million spent by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority to purchase the armored BMW cars for Nigeria's Aviation Minister Stella Oduah.
A highly reliable source has told SaharaReporters that the shady deal for the car was done entirely between Coscharis Motors Limited, a dealership from which the cars were purchased, one of Ms. Oduah’s private firms based in Abuja, and First Bank of Nigeria.
“The NCAA was not even aware of the deal until the minister told them to sign that they had received two BMW cars,” said our source.
After inking the deal, Coscharis Motors, sellers of the highly inflated automobiles, reportedly gave the Aviation Minister more than N112 million as kickbacks. Our source added that Cosmas Maduka, who owns Coscharis Motors, pocked N60 million for each of the two BMW cars.

An official at the NCAA corroborated the information that the agency was largely kept in the dark about the transaction. “We were never privy to the transaction and had not seen the cars even though our head of transport was made to sign the delivery note,” said the source. The agency is under the Ministry of Aviation.

The source added that the agency has still not seen the cars even after the scandal escalated.

SaharaReporters was first to break the news that Ms. Oduah compelled a cash-strapped NCAA to pay for two extravagantly priced bullet-proof BMWs for her personal use. After initially denying our reports, the minister’s spokesman, Joe Obi, admitted that the transaction transpired. Mr. Obi alleged that the purchase was justified because of unspecified threats to the minister’s life. Neither Mr. Obi nor the minister has provided proof of any threats to Ms. Oduah. The minister has not addressed why the NCAA paid a price tag that auto dealers in the US and the UK described as a rip-off. US dealers said that each of the BMW cars should cost no more than $$167,000.

Last week, an official of the NCAA, Fola Akinkuotu, spoke to the media and defended the purchase of the cars. Mr. Akinkuotu said the cars were for the ministry’s protocol pool for use in transporting foreign aviation dignitaries when they visit Nigeria. His explanation conflicted with the original statement by the minister’s spokesman, Mr. Obi. A source at the NCAA disclosed that Mr. Akinkuotu felt tricked into facing the media on the scandal. “He had been told he would only appear beside the embattled minister, who was supposed to speak. Instead, he was asked to speak,” said the source.
Meanwhile, a source at the Presidency said President Goodluck Jonathan was unfazed about the fraud perpetrated by Ms. Stella Oduah, his Aviation Minister. Ms. Oduah and the late former National Security Advisor, General Owoye Azazi, had played significant roles in raising and disbursing money to rig the 2011 presidential elections for Mr. Jonathan.  Mr. Jonathan will depart Abuja tomorrow on a weeklong pilgrimage to Israel.

However, SaharaReporters learnt that several ministers and diplomats have registered their displeasure at Mr. Jonathan’s continued retention of Ms. Oduah on his cabinet.

omenka:

Just imagine!!! Imagine someone like this poster being made the president of this country!! Today, nothing that relates to public office is being viewed without putting on some ethno-religious glasses over the eyes!
Yet someone would want to make me believe "Nigeria go beta". How did it ever come to this ehn??

It's sad. Nigeria.

sagytarius™:

Udele!

Hmmmmmmmm ask alison madweke how she survived these onslought..... N learn its obviouse peple dnt like ur transformation of nigerian airports, or u must be stepin on toes, be wise dear n tread wit caution