You won't believe Why Deputy Speaker, Lasun don’t fly local airlines

Tweet

On Tuesday, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun, has revealed the reasons why he refuses to fly local airlines.He made this statement while he was representing the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, at a public hearing organised by the House Committee on Aviation on the need to rescue airline industry from imminent collapse.

Also, at the meeting, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika revealed that trillions of naira was needed to make the sector viable.

According to the Minister, “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.”
Sirika insisted that the government was not going back on the concession of airports in the country.

He commented on the suspension of domestic flights, he said some airlines  “structurally deficient and financially unhealthy.”

FOR MORE BREAKING NEWS ON BBM ADD: 24D8750B