Sincere 9gerian:

The minister of aviation messed up in the way she handled the purchase of 2 armored vehicles but she cannot be crucified on account of this. She messed up because even if she wanted those vehicles things could have been done in a more tidy way.

Just to reiterate, I'm not supporting president Jonathan or any of his ministers because they are saints or faultless but because they are all 1,000 times far better than those who held these offices in the past.

For the aviation minister, the issue now is about N255 million cars which she has come clean on. In my opinion, even if she needed those vehicles, they could have been bought in a less scandalous manner. Again, I dont have the facts but it seems NCAA bought those vehicles at inflated cost.

Besides the concerns above, there's nothing wrong with buying an armored vehicle for the office of a minister that is WORKING. She needs to be alive first before she can work.

Again, I think we must also place side by side the alleged or perceived sins of the minister with the good works she has done in the last 2 years. We must place the N255 million spent on the controversial vehicles side by side with over N800 million being spent per Airport in the ongoing remodelling of the 22 Airports across the federation. That is a total of about N18 billion that is currently being spent on remodelling of the Airports. What about the funds spent so far to purchase and install safety equipments for Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET), including doppler weather radar, completion of the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON), wind shear alert system, etc

We must not forget the ongoing construction of N13 billion brand new international terminal in Enugu and 4 new international terminal in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Portharcourt.

The question now is how come there is suddenly funds to execute all these projects? How come there was no major investment in the aviation sector in the last 2 decades until Odua came to power? Who were the people looting these funds in the past? Are the cabals and vultures who were looting these funds in the past now fighting back?

I will not join in fighting someone who has put funds, that was hitherto looted, to good use. I will not join EVIL people in pulling down the minister of aviation or asking her to resign. I will continue to support her to continue and COMPLETE her numerous good works, which I can see with my korokoro eyes. I cannot join forces which I can neither see nor understand their motives in fighting the minister of aviation.

Those who have joined the bandwagon in fighting the minister of aviation are INDIRECTLY fighting all the good works mentioned above. Why join unseen forces to fight the good works that I can see with my naked/korokoro eyes?

Where were all these vultures in the last 2 decades when our Airports were like poultry farms? Why couldn't they show Nigerians the invoices of how they were SHARING the funds then?

I am not perfect, neither do I expect any human being to be perfect. If people make mistakes or engage in wrong doing, we can isolate the issues and deal with them. For me, I have isolated the messy purchase of 2 armored cars for criticisms. I also expect the minister to have learnt some lessons.

ilugunboy: Pathetically and irredeemably hopeless person.....

I know your silence so far is to come up with ways to justify this absurdity

1Wily1Wily: but this car is not her personal car

Sincere 9gerian:
Ignoramus! Maybe you should read my post again. I didn't justify anything. I only isolated the incident for criticism.

wrench: This Dude Never Cease To Amaze Me.

gregg2: She didn't mess up anything. I saw a quotation among those documents Sahara Reporters published meaning that a certain procurement process leading to the actual purchase was followed. All the receiving processes with relevant documentation as done in formal organisations were also adhered to, atleast based on signatures and remarks on the various documents. She had nothing to hide, that is why even the stores officers were also allowed to do their work and be privy to it. Have the auditors come out to feign ignorance of the purchase? Was they no provision for its purchase in the budget? Is the due process office saying it is unaware?

• The Madam Minister has instituted a monthly standing deduction order of about N158million each from the accounts of Aviation Agencies namely NAMA, NCAA and FAAN and other Agencies under her and remittance of same into a secret account solely run by her.
• The Minister recently ordered the three main Agencies (FAAN, NCAA and NAMA) to cough out millions of Naira to settle the bill of
six (6) Sophisticated custom-built ballistic armoured BMW cars for her personal use (either for her failed Gubernatorial ambition campaign
or for 2015 Neighbour- to-Neighbour presidential election campaign).
• Price Waters Coopers (PWC) has audited various aspects of four Agencies under the Ministry’s financial operations for at least 4 times. As we speak PWC staff, young boys and girls who have hardly graduated from university are on ground at the Parastatals offices since January this year to date looking for God knows what.
• The Minister usually fixes the audit fee to be paid by the Aviation Agencies to PWC for these phony consultancy audits at about 250million Naira each, totaling a whopping sum of One Billion Naira on each occasion for FAAN, NCAA, NAMA AND AIB.
• The Minister took her impunity to the highest level by employing over 2000 new staff to fill non-existing vacancies in all the Agencies under the Aviation Ministry…Ninety percent of these newly recruited staff are members and online signatory to the Minister's last neighbour to neighbour presidential election campaign.

gregg2: She didn't mess up anything. I saw a quotation among those documents Sahara Reporters published meaning that a certain procurement process leading to the actual purchase was followed. All the receiving processes with relevant documentation as done in formal organisations were also adhered to, atleast based on signatures and remarks on the various documents. She had nothing to hide, that is why even the stores officers were also allowed to do their work and be privy to it. Have the auditors come out to feign ignorance of the purchase? Was they no provision for its purchase in the budget?

blacksta: Let her step up a committee to look into the purchase of the armoured vechicle - So Nigeria is not war torn country

Retweeted oby ezekwesili (@obyezeks):

I recall my Permanent Secretary's great astonishment when I over ruled his plan to buy a new car for my use as Minister of Solid Minerals. SOME MINISTERS DO 'AV EM--A.L.A

Sincere 9gerian:
It is part of it. Maybe she should have done the purchases under the table. You know there are so many vested interests and this is a highly partisan environment.

What about the cost? The vehicles appear over-priced.