The
Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Tuesday in Abuja said the
Federal Government needed N1 trillion to turn around the country’s aviation
sector.
Mr. Sirika said this at
a four-day public hearing organized by the House of Representatives Committee
on Aviation.
The hearing is focussed
on “The Need to Rescue the Ailing Aviation Industry from Imminent Collapse.’’
Mr. Sirika stressed
that the government had no plans to sell the country’s airports, but frowned at
the poor state of infrastructure in the aviation sector.
He said, “One trillion
naira will be needed to turn around our aviation sector, we will not sell the
airports and nobody is carrying any structure to anywhere.
“In fact, what we
intend to do is to put them into better use’’.
The minister disclosed
that the ministry had inaugurated a 9-man delivery team to interface with
stakeholders in the aviation sector on concession of the airports.
According to him, the
team will liaise with labour unions to oversee the day to day running of the
concession.
-Premium Times
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