By SaharaReporters, New York
A group known as Investigative Reporters In
(IRA) has come out with yet another bombshell on the
wanton looting of the nation’s financial resources b
Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, and her
disorganization of the entire aviation sector.
Speaking for the group, Mazi Kanayo Ochei, and
Kenneth Uti President and Secretary respectively, said
their investigations reveal that in addition to the two
cars she forced the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
(NCAA) to purchase for her, she also forced the Nigerian
Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and the Federal
Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to buy two each of
the same brand of cars.
“I don’t understand why Nigerian media are shouting
about NCAA alone, when a total of six bulletproof cars
were actually purchased by the Minister on the bill of
three aviation agencies,” they said.
“Our work as IRA revealed that while Nnamdi Udoh of
NAMA bought two BMW, Joyce Nkemakolam (Acting
DG) of NCAA bought two BMW, and Mr. Uresi George of
FAAN bought two bullet-proof American specs limousine
for the Minister of Aviation.”
They further stated that all the purchases were made
from Coscharis Motors and cannot be denied.
“If Nigerians really know the magnitude of the rot in the
Aviation Industry as at this moment, they will carry
placards against this administration,” the IRA officials
said, noting that the FAAN is heading for bankruptcy,
with the MD on the verge of taking a bank loan to pay
workers’ salaries last month.
“The only option left for FAAN now is to begin to use
part of their statutory remittance to Federation Account
to offset their bills.”
On the part of NAMA, the IRA described it as being in
disarray, that nobody seems to know what is going on
and that the workers have completely lost confidence in
the Management. They noted that members of the
NAMA staff have threatened on several occasions in the
recent past to embark on industrial action based on
poor conditions of service and heaps of unpaid
allowances.
“IRA further wants EFCC to call Coscharis Motors for
questioning on the six cars purchased by the Minister
so as to get to the root of this issue,” they said.
It would be recalled that on October 19, the Director-
General of the NCAA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, told a press
conference in Abuja that the Federal Government was
hunting for the whistleblower who leaked the story of
the two scandalous armoured cars the agency bought
for Mrs. Oduah at a cost of N225m.
On October 21, SaharaReporters further reported that
NAMA had also purchased four Toyota Tundra vehicles
for Mrs. Oduah in addition to four stretch limousine cars
that were said to have been bought for the
transportation of VIPs to the Ministry.
In a statement, Supo Atobatele, the General Manager of
NAMA, attacked the report as “frivolous, malicious and
mischievous.”
“We hereby make it categorically clear to the
unsuspecting public that this evil story as being
promoted, is patently false in its entirety and calculate
to put the agency and the office of the minister into
disrepute,” he said.
IRA has called on President Jonathan to recognize that
only a level-headed, matured and patriotic Minister can
help Nigerian Aviation industry, “not a self-seeking,
corrupt and proud person like Stella Oduah.”
Furthermore, the group said, “We also want to advise
the newly confirmed Director-General of NCAA Fola
Akinkotun to stop defending what he knows practically
nothing about, while we sympathize with his position,
we advise him to stop making any further reckless
press statement in any futile attempt at defending
those who all Nigerians know how they ganged up to
prevent him from taking up the position of the DG
NCAA for almost 5 months after he was chosen by
President Jonathan.”
This morning, George Uresi, the chief executive officer
of the FAAN admitted to a hearing of the Senate
Aviation Committee that the agency indeed bought four
bullet proof cars for Ms. Oduah at N70 million each.dy theAviationEmbattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah

Ah! Nigeria is a corrupt nation. We need someone to come in there and rid this country of these corrupt entities called politicians. Wowwwwww!!!!

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