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Enugu International Airport Scam: Another 419 on the Igbo Nation


The Enugu International Airport also known as Akanu Ibiam International Airport is another 419 on the Biafran Igbo citizens of Nigeria because there is yet nothing international about the airport. It is instructive to note that late President Umoru Yaradua was the one who in 2008 approved the upgrading of the airport to International status in line with his administration’s policy that each geopolitical zone will have at least one international airport.

In 2009, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) under Yaradua approved the sum of N4.13 billion for work on the airport which would include extension, asphalting and marking of the runway. The old runway which is 2,400 meters long was to be extended by 600 metres to make it 3000 meters or three kilometers and the width extended from the existing 45 meters to 60 meter. In December 2009, the airport was closed temporarily for work to commence and those wishing to take the route were diverted to Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri. This work spanned the period when Mr. Babatunde Omotoba was minister till when Fidelia Njeze took over. Therefore, the process of upgrading the Enugu International Airport was kick started by late Yaradua and N4.13 billion naira was approved by the FEC and released for the work to commence.

The Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Jonathan on October 19, 2010 reaffirmed the upgrade of Enugu Airport to an international facility and awarded a reviewed contract of about N6.1billion.
With the reaffirmation of the international status of the airport, Igbo leaders started the process of unbridled sycophancy by praising the current regime to high heavens over an international airport that still does not exist.

Chief among the praise singers was the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremmadu who said that ““For many decades, the people of the South East, the local and international business community have waited seemingly endlessly for the commencement of international flight operations at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, and the people of South East will remain ever grateful to President Jonathan for the breakthrough.”

When Stella Oduah moved from 'Neighbor to' Neighbor Campaign Organization' where she muscled out and overshadowed the Chief Tony Anenih owned 'Door to Door Campaign Organization', she was rewarded with Minister of Aviation for a job well done and she commenced upgrade of facilities in all the 22 airports in Nigeria. In the first phase eleven (11)airports including General Aviation Terminal (MMA) International Terminal (MMA), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, (International Terminal ), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, (Domestic Terminal), Kaduna Airport Terminal, Margaret Ekpo International Airport Terminal, Calabar, Benin Airport Terminals, Akanu Ibiam International Airport Terminal, Enugu, Sam Mbakwe Airport Terminal, Owerri, Port Harcourt International Airport Terminal, Yola Airport Terminal and Yakubu Gowon Airport, Jos were scheduled for upgrading.

Therefore it is absolutely silly for Igbo leaders to grovel before Jonathan for upgrading Enugu Airport as if it is the only one in Nigeria being overhauled. Completely silly and self-effacing!! For goodness sake the Igbos gave this man 90% votes and even zones that gave him 5% votes also got their airports renovated at amounts far higher than was spent at Enugu Airport. Julius Berger was awarded the N9.5bn contract for the Nnamdi Airport upgrade work, while Messrs Crew Construction Company in a joint venture with Itlay's Messrs Cremona Construction and Romania's Messrs Coffer Impex were to upgrade Aminu Kano at a cost of N12.8bn while Enugu got N6 billon and yet the Emir Ado Bayero of Kano did not lead a ' thank you' praise singing troupe to Aso Rock.

The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), George Uriesi, even affirmed that the Federal Government had invested $870 million (N139,200,000,000) in airport infrastructure, which includes the remodeling of the terminals and other safety critical equipment. If the Federal Government invested N139 billion naira to upgrade 11 airports around Nigeria and Enugu Airport got only N6 bilion of it, then why the celebration. Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Jos, Yola, Kano, Calabar and Kaduna airports had more budgetary allocations than Enugu Airports yet Afenifere, Arewa Consultative Forum, Middle Belt Forum, South South Peoples Assembly have not kowtowed before any Jonathan. The Governors of the South West, South South, North East, North West or North Central have never led any delegation to over praise Jonathan for upgrading their airports.

President Jonathan had said that a new international terminal for the Enugu Airport will cost N13 billion naira. The question is, has any funds been committed to build the international terminal. Is there any budgetary allocation for the terminal for the year 2015? The answer is negative. Therefore the Enugu Airport project is a 419.

What is the state of landing and safety equipment at the airport? This airport is a big risks to international airlines especially those from Europe, America, Asia, Middle East because it is international in propaganda and not in facilities. Egypt Air and South African Airways have rejected overtures to use the airport. The only airlines that had the magnanimity to use the Airport are Ethiopian Airline which operates three flights weekly to Addis Ababa and aids in connecting flights to some destinations. I thank the Ethiopian Airlines for having mercy on the marginalized citizens of Biafra.

The Turkish Airlines signed agreement in principle as announced by Vice President Sambo a year ago but fled back to Greece after inspecting the equipments on the ground. If that airport is truly international airlines like Virgin Atlantic Airways, Lufthansa Airlines, British Airways, KLM, British Caledonian Airlines, Oatar Airways, Emirates Airlines will ply the route, but for now all overtures from certain quarters to lure these carriers to Enugu have failed woefully due to what they termed poor quality infrastructure. As at January, 2015, no airline from Europe, America, Asia and Middle East have landed or taken off from Enugu International Airport


The airport lacks many safety landing facilities including the Doppler Weather Radar used for real time detection and tracking of hazardous weather systems such as thunderstorms, wind shear, turbulence, dust storms. This equipment was recently installed in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Maiduguri, Yola and none installed in Enugu.

What of the Low Level Wind Shear Alert Systems (LLWAS) and RETIM Synergy Satellite Image Receivers among others critical landing, navigational and radar enhancement equipments of international standards. They are missing at the airport and no foreign airline will risk a crash. The international terminal is not there yet.

The runway and aircraft hangers are always flooded whenever there is rainfall and many times passengers have to remove their shoes, fold their trousers to walk up the tarmac for boarding. This Enugu International Airport is another 419 on the Igbo nation and the foreigner airlines have dismissed the international status of the airport as a scam. When the emperors decide to actually give us an l airport the volume of activities, flights and passenger traffic will prove it- what we have is another International airport 419 on the Igbo nation and some fools are still celebrating.


~ By Obinna Akukwe
profetobinna2@yahoo.com

complete and Total RUBBISH fit for the refuse bin

babadee1:
Compared to your GEJ, Buhari is a saint. I'm done arguing with you, vote for whoever you want.

he is a saint in the septic tank.

babadee1:
Which $2.3 billion? Has anybody even insinuated that money went into Buhari's pocket? Please don't make me laugh with your feeble attempts to defend the most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria. If Buhari said Abacha wasn't corrupt it's because the facts that we all know now were not available to him at the time. What about the person who said that stealing is not corruption? Was that Buhari too? Would you like to do a side by side comparison of accusations of corruption under Buhari versus under Jonathan?

Shut up if you have nothing meaningful to say, $2.3billion went missing under Buhari's watch, AND HE STILL MAINTAINS THAT ABACHA IS NOT CORRUPT. GEJ is not a saint, so you projecting a morally dirty old man to me as a saint, is tantamount to insulting my intelligence.

babadee1:
You are fooling yourself. There is no living person who has ever ruled Nigeria whose hands are as clean as Buhari. You know it and I know it. Keep on supporting a thief, I will support a person of integrity. If in future your children ask you why did you vote to allow Jonathan to continue I hope you will be able to answer them with a clear conscience.

A whopping $2.3billion, you say his hand are clean, you are very wicked and hypocritical, he said and still maintains that Abacha was not corrupt,if that is so, why or what is the source of all the Abacha LOOT? Then even if his hand is the cleanest which means that it is also somehow dirty.

Kwankwaso
Atiku
Buhari
Amaechi
Roches
all the former npdp poeple
corruption is written all over their faces

ayukdaboss:
Do you want to go to Jail?? - Godswill Akpabio (2015)

what do you mean?

LRNZH:
GMB 2015. Building a National Coalition.

HOMO stupidus

yuio33:
at it stand buhari will not win the election.


it is already an election won by jonathan,

they think we are joking

babadee1:
GMB 2015!
Buhari is corruption and corruption is Buhari.

fixed

GEJ till 2019
Buhari and anti corruption do not go hand in hand

courage54:
This is what Jonathan has made u to believe, where is that spirit of ONE NIGERIA? We have never been this divided along religious line before, we hard Obasanjo for 8yrs follow by Yaradua, nobody cares about anybody's religion then, but since the beginning of this regime it has been a fight of muslims vs christians.

You are a big liar, what about the incessant killing of igbos in the north? so Igbos are second class citizens in Nigeria, SMH for you.

FAKE

GEJ till 2019 not forever

LRNZH:
Enyi (Friend) of Aba.

GMB 2014. Integrity on a Platter.

Stupid

OkikiOluwa1:
Only a heartless Nigeriqan ll want GEJ to remain president till 2019.
Last Bullet

I want him to remain and continue with his good works

9inches:

Fewer than pre-GEJ era, meaning GEJ is actually working. Post more pls

hahaha

jeeqaa7:
Sell outs

so anybody that supports GEJ was paid?

There we go, these fools do not want to hear CONFAB, now I know that they do not love nigeria, comments like the confab is a waste of resouces and time, how that is true only they can tell, GEJ carry go jor until busharia eats pork.

The Bible says that if you sin against God or Jesus you may be forgiven but if anyone blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, there is no forgiveness.

braivheart:
Wow! When it would seem that jona would sweep the southeast. Interesting.

I like that this article is on a national paper as widely regarded as Vanguard. So that when our southeastern brothers read it, they're going to have a rethink and make informed decisions, rather than vote on mere religious and ethnic sentiments. God bless Nigeria.

My friend, that man speaks for himself, all he mentioned above are being done right now, BTW all we want is true federalism.

Brimmie:
Yeah, we know!

You're free to console yourself with whatever that makes you happy.

Like someone that just had a Marathon Sex, the General is Cümming (Coming) !!

GEJ wins and you will hug a wet live transformer
children of the devil

BIG LIES

You know very well that It is a mere APC propaganda and very far way from the truth

he was expecting kickbacks from GEJ and wife but got none

Nukilia:
Taking a critical look at the drama.
1. The presidents wife decided to visit the Revd. Father in order to show the world that she has been able to buy the Rev. Fr. over, thus silencing her husbands opponents.
2. This single action of the presidents wife was a decoy to get the blessings of the Rev. Fr.
3. Take a critical look at all the big prophets in this nation who have been visited by either the president or his wife, none of them can boldly speak against injustice going on in the society.
4. That implies that in the order of strategies planned by the presidency to silence the ministers of God in Nigeria and also deceive them with Greek gifts, only one has backfired while the others are still going on as planned.

My humble submission

you are a story teller, mbacka always misbehaves, he said nnamani will loose in not he (mbaka) will pull off his robes, but Nnamani won landslide and Mbacka is still waring the robes, same with Sulley Chimey. If you know mbacka well you will not even take his words seriously and I strongly believed that he was expecting some money from the president but got none, hence the sudden 'spiritual drama'.

b1oodykiller:
Noooooooo he disappointed me yes
But "hang" i disagreed

As you see me so, I dey Boil with anger, Mbacka should know he has sold us to slavery

CreativeWeb:
I have read the full text and watched video of Rev. Fr. Mbaka's recent sermon.

The sermon, which was a direct attack on our dear President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Let me make it categorically clear that Fr. Mbaka spoke like any other human beign and he is as a matter of fact just a Nigerian. He did not speak the mind of God. He spoke out of sentiments. His sermon will not make Nigerians to vote for a former Dictator who cannot articulate words properly and who lacks brilliance, competence and who is very poor in leadership and out of touch with modern realities of life and governance.


Fr. Mbaka blamed GEJ for everything bad thing happening in Nigeria. Yet, this is a man that came in as the president and met a collapsed Nigeria. GEJ met a collapsed power sector. He met a railway comatose corporation. He met a messed up economy. He met decayed infrastructure. Today, in less than eight years, GEJ has recorded some landmark achievements.

Note: If you know Fr. Mbaka's very well, you will not take him serious.

An 1diot that said that if Nnamani wins enugu reelection he will remove his robes, well, Nnamani won landslide and mbaka is still wearing his robes. Thanks for reminding me that.

ketiy77:
mbaka did not endorse osibanjo or buhari

He endorsed the renowned terrorist!

seges:
He does'nt need you to listen to him you corruption lover of the status quo

Bastart like you, does not even know the history of Nigeria, that corruption you are talking about, is it not the structure of Nigeria that is its root cause?
Look nigeria must be renegotiated because I will not sell my right to anybody because some people are killing themselves in the north, the three million people that were killed in biafra, are they not humans like you? You are not more nigerian than I am

At OP
What this man did is an abomination, it is high treason, he betrayed us, even Iscariot is better
Than him, but my brother don't you worry just have faith we will overcome his likes.

This man has sold us out, infact IMO he should be hanged, it is His type that where saboteurs during the uncivil war,
Mabaka has dissappointed me so much, I still wonder how much he was paid by the born to rule people. I will never listen to this
Bastard again.