In context, this is not today's important story, but I thought to flag it up too.

Aviation minister @hadisirika is committing broad daylight fraud by displaying this rented and hurriedly repainted @flyethiopian Boeing 737-800 as an aircraft belonging to a phantom "Nigeria Air".

I obtained the video below of the purported "Nigeria Air" 737-800 from a source at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital.

As you can see when you freeze the frame, the aircraft is clearly registered to @flyethiopian with the registration number ET-APL.

If you put that registration number into @planespotters, you can clearly see that it is an 11 year-old Boeing 737-800 belonging to @flyethiopian.

It has also briefly appeared in the colours of @MalawianAirline (@flyethiopian owns 49% of @MalawianAirline).

When you check @flightradar24, you can see that this aircraft is still in active @flyethiopian service, but after disappearing to Tel-Aviv for 5 days (undergoing repainting), has now resurfaced in Abuja to be fraudulently "commissioned" later today by @hadisirika.

The questions that @hadisirika needs to answer are:

What exactly is the nature of the ownership and technical agreement between @flyethiopian and the so-called 'Nigeria Air'?

Why did he spend billions of naira on this project to deliver essentially a @flyethiopian subsidiary?

Why is he fraudulently misrepresenting a @flyethiopian Beoing 737 that is still in ACTIVE service, and flew with @flyethiopian colours as recently as 6 days ago (May 21), as an aircraft belonging to "Nigeria Air", that will be commissioned by the hapless outgoing president?

UPDATE:

The plane has landed in Abuja and @hadisirika the fraduster made sure the video he tweeted didn't show its registration number.

He actually moved the camera away when it was about to come into shot.

To understand the extent of the fraud that @hadisirika has committed and is still committing, I recommend reading this.

TheDemola:
To understand the extent of the fraud that @hadisirika has committed and is still committing, I recommend reading this.

MrBrownJay1:
EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY!!!!
unless you are a top company like Air France, Emirates etc, most new/small airlines company's aircraft are rented and/or bought (on credit) from failing airlines or from airlines that want to upgrade their fleet.

you think AIR PEACE own their planes....? they mostly got their planes from a Latvian CHARTER company called Smartlynx. Smartlynx own their planes not Air Peace.

It has also briefly appeared in the colours of @MalawianAirline (@flyethiopian owns 49% of @MalawianAirline).