As controversies
continue to trail
the purchase of
N255M worth of
bullet-proof cars
by the Aviation
Ministry for its
Minister,
different
reactions have
continued to
greet the development. Even as the Ministry had
today accepted that the report by SaharaReporters
was quite true, it argued that the vehicles were not
private, but officials, hence meant for any other
Minister even after Oduah had left office.
Online news site, SaharaReporters, had reported on
Tuesday that the vehicles were delivered to the
Minister sometime in August.
According to the report, the transaction for the
purchase of the two BMW cars had started in June,
but the request for the delivery and payment were
done between August 13 and 15, 2013.
However, reacting to the development, Engr.
Rotimi Fashakin, former publicity Secretary to the
now rested CPC and a chieftain of the All
Progressive Congress has said that the revelation
was a clear manifestation of an unserious
government.
The APC stalwart who spoke with DailyPost
correspondent on phonet said that the
development goes to point out why the aviation
industry continues to face different challenges
since the inception of Jonathan’s administration.
He said, “The salient questions to ask are; were the
bullet-proof cars part of the 2013 appropriation
budget? If not, why did the Aviation Ministry buy
such expensive cars?
If what we are thinking is true, then it won’t be
wrong to conclude that what we are experiencing in
the aviation industry today, the crashes and other
terrible managerial issues, are as a result of the
vein glorious and annoying ventures that have
taken over the aviation industry today, including
corruption. You can now see for yourself, the kind of
Minister piloting the affairs of the ministry. I’m sure
that the President will retain the same woman if he
is returned elected, but God forbid.
Speaking further on what he termed
the failure of Jonathan’s
administration, Fashakin said, “this is the same
regime that is supervising a National Conference.
Do you need a National Conference to see all the
kleptomenia, the tricks and the effrontery ongoing
in the system? Do we really need a national
conference to see that this administration does not
mean well for the country?”
Dismissing further the idea of a National
Conference, he said, “there are certain things you
don’t legislate on. Recall that when Babangaida
wanted to return the country to Democracy, many
of us knew that the mission was not meant for the
good of the country, we knew that the mission was
not meant to achieve anything. It was not shocking
to Nigerians when the election was nullified
because the aim in the first place was not to return
to democracy, it was merely aimed at diverting
attention of the Nigerian public. It’s the same thing
Jonathan’s government is doing. The regime is only
interested in buying time for itself, it’s a fluke of
itself. Ask yourself whether the administration has
the capacity to convene a national conference. Ask
yourself again on the positive impression this
government has created at the centre. The national
conference is not meant to achieve anything.
Remember that people from his own political party
and the North do not want him back. He is using
the conference to corner them in. There is no
national interest in the call for a conference. That’s
why those of us who are patriots have said ‘no’ to a
national conference, and have termed it another
avenue to waste the nation’s resources, and to
waste useful time of the suffering Nigerians. The
National Conference is a Euphemism to resolve PDP
crisis, simple.” He had affirmed.
Source http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/10/17/bullet-proof-cars-rotimi-fashakin-berates-stella-jonathan/

So FFK is right afterall.

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