trueword:

Imo State government to start airline soon
Thursday, 23 February 2012


Imo state government will start a state government owned airline to be known as Imo Air.

The governor of Imo state Rochas Okorocha said this while delivering the state Appropriation Bill for 2012.

Okorocha has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a UK-based company to execute the airline project.

He said the partnership would make the airline be profitable as it would not be tied down by government bureaucracy.

This comes as rehabilitation and expansion works are being rounded-up in the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport (SMICA).



http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/111-politics/33638-imo-state-government-to-start-airline-soon

mens dept:

Hope this info is true. Can fly from Bini/Lagos to Owerri lol.

Why cant the AGPA governors come together and modernize their states ( Imo Airport and drill a Seaport at Onicha) without looking for PDP crooks to promise this and that from Abuja. They have the funds now, unlike the days of Ohakim and Ngige/Mbadinuju.

monkeyleg:

misplaced priority.

Okorocha has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a UK-based company to execute the airline project.

He said the partnership would make the airline be profitable as it would not be tied down by government bureaucracy.

monkeyleg:

It is not necessary. when state start getting into this sort of business I fear. he should focus on mass transit programme, and create enabiling environment for private firms to run such things

monkeyleg:

It is not necessary. when state start getting into this sort of business I fear. he should focus on mass transit programme, and create enabiling environment for private firms to run such things

mens dept:

Its very necessary. You know for sometime its been state policy to not allow for any international airport in the Midwest/Middle Belt/East. WHy?

In the Western World, the most important MASS TRANSIT are airports and Sea ports. They bring in the big bucks, and almost automatically change the landscape of a region or state.

9ja knows this, but of course, you cant keep people enslaved for ever, no matter if you are Rome, the British, the Soviets, etc.

Look at Enugu airport ,the FG is just B.S'ing, as another 10 years will go by and nada.

mens dept:

Hope this info is true. Can fly from Bini/Lagos to Owerri lol.

Why cant the AGPA governors come together and modernize their states ( Imo Airport and drill a Seaport at Onicha) without looking for PDP crooks to promise this and that from Abuja. They have the funds now, unlike the days of Ohakim and[b] Ngige[/b]/Mbadinuju.

Onlytruth:

I see it more from the perspective of profit, revenue generation and brand development.
Who says Imo Air can't be the "South West Airlines" (the US local airline that dominates a chunk of the US domestic air travels).
Nigeria is still largely untapped, if you know what you are doing, you will create a wealth machine.
My only caveat is that government must not fund it.
Imo public can still own part of it, but it musn't be funded by Imo state government.

Abagworo:

Sometimes you guys get on my nerves. @Bolded I wonder on what grounds that name should be there. Ngige remains a legend. Why put an angel in the midst of looters.

Okija_juju:

Yet another Rochas Okorocha jamboree.

I shall wait and see. . . .

Government Airline. . Like IMO State Transport Company abi!!

ifyalways:

Argh,Abagworo,bless you,bless you !

@Okija,what about ITC?Don't tell me its gone with the winds please.

@Topic,cool only if its NOT funded and managed by the govt.

chino11:

This is pedestrian, focuseless, visionless and myopic idea if not another political pronoucement. Government should not have any business investing in such a heavy financial projects that will be ruined down in a matter of months. It is better done by private or foreign investors and not using state's tiny resources for such a project, maybe its a conduit pipe to suck the state out. This governor has taken the Chieftancy title of a 'talking talking' governor of Igboland.