Any correlation b/w SW ministers of Aviation & the erstwhile non-international status of Enugu Airport?

Fani Kayode was a minister of aviation- nothing happened with Enugu airport

Aborishade was same and nothing happened

Omotoba also was a minister, nothing happened, and he even suggested the airport should not be internationalized. He sent his goons to write an article (see next post)

Please google ''Batunde Omotoba and Enugu Airport'' and see what you find

https://www.google.com/search?q=Batunde+Omotoba+and+Enugu+Airport&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Then Njeze an Igbo lady came in and something began to happen which was finalized by Stella, another Igbo lady

The hatred for SE by these people is so, so deep.

In whose interest is Enugu airport upgrade?
Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00 By Wole Shadare Business Services - Business Travels


THE news last week that the Federal Government has approved the upgrade of the Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu to international status came as a shock. The decision was shocking, in the sense that the government has taken a rather dangerous path without understanding what it takes to do so.

An elated Minister of Aviation, Fidelia Akuabata Njeze, had underscored the significance of the airport to the Southeast region that has witnessed remarkable economic growth in recent years.

She highlighted the fact that “a large proportion of businesses in the region are of international dimension. With this upgrade, international travellers will be saved the added cost of going to Lagos or Port Harcourt to travel. Additionally, the safety of lives and property will be better guaranteed as less time will be spent on the roads.”

More worrisome is the fact that the Ministry of Aviation is celebrating it as an achievement without concrete steps to really match this with adequate infrastructure that will make the airport a pride that deserves the new status that is being tied it around. Or is it a case of politics where every state must have an airport, not based on commercial considerations but for the simple fact that we just need an airport?

Very soon, Oyo and Osun, Delta, Imo states will pressurise the government to upgrade the airports to international status just because they have a Minister of Aviation who is from that area. What manner of sector are we running in Nigeria? What type of policy formulators do we have? Do they really advice the government well?

Upgrading the airport to international status is a welcome development only if the several billions of naira that would be earmarked for the job would be judiciously used, but happenings in the sector clearly shows skepticism that it would be money gone down the drain.

The four major international airports are in bad shape. Not a few are of the opinion that efforts should be geared towards refurbishing them rather than embark on white elephant project.

What has the ministry done to refurbish decrepit facilities at virtually all the airports? The facilities are in shambles and seem to have defied all known solutions. What about the country’s flagship airport, the Murtala Muhammed Airport? The decay stares passengers in the face.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is in a pitiable situation, not because the management is not trying its best, but because of huge interference from government officials, including the National Assembly, coupled with generational decay that has stunted its growth.

While FAAN is owed over N15 billion by some of its concessionaires, the ministry looks the other way or at best tells the agencies that the debtors are friends of people in government. How can such an agency grow to provide world-class service? It is impossible.

The recent disclosure that the government plans to release N90 billion to upgrade the four major airports of Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt and Kano is heart warming, but we hope the fund will be channelled to the right place and not for electioneering campaign as it is being alleged in some quarters.

Again, Nigeria may indirectly be opening up its territories for foreign airlines, particularly those from the United States, which could force them to rely on the Open Skies agreement between her and U.S. to operate to the airport, thereby endangering the operations of the local airlines.

It could even make British carriers to activate the multiple designation pacts to operate to the airport without reciprocity from Nigerian airlines. Whose interest is the country protecting? Obviously, this is not in Nigeria ’s interest.

We are already witnessing one of the biggest rushes by foreign airlines to operate to Nigeria without the government equipping her own airlines to compete with these mega airlines. All Nigerian airlines put together cannot match airlines like Delta, Emirates, British Airways, even United Airlines.

To worsen the situation, United has concluded arrangement to commence direct flights to Lagos from Washington DC on December 6, 2010, in addition to Delta that has already established itself as one of the biggest airlines in the world.

It is very obvious that the government is not getting its priorities right, not with people who parade themselves as advisers to government.

https://www.nairaland.com/523752/someone-shows-veiled-dislike-upgrading

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First of all don't blame Yoruba people for the lack of interest in Ibiam Int'l. So far their leaders have promised Lekki International airport siiiiince, and have their own political party control and yet, they don't have it.

So the blame is not on them or Hausa or Ijaw, but on Igbo people who joined to support PDP and Obasanjo to Yar Adua against Ekwueme and parties that may have pressured someone to do something.

Imagine the yearly allocation of Ebonyi and Abia state. Within 3 years it could have built and developed an airport, but the 80 year old slow poke Elechi and the even slower fool named Theo Orji are just there to protect their godfathers loot and businesses. One senator from ABia state (one of few states that despite WIDESPREAD poverty managed to return all state and national officials back for another 4 years) promised airport during his re-election. Yet he has kept mute for years.

Shame