A Chief Executive of King Air, one of Nigeria’s domestic airlines, Senator Musa Adede has called on the Federal Government to urgently intervened in the aviation sector with a view to tackling the myriad of challenges confronting it.
Speaking at the second Quarterly Brunch Breakfast Meeting organised by the sector’s pressure group, Aviation Round Table Safety Initiative (ASRTI) in Lagos, Adele, who lamented how the sector has been moving from bad to worse, particularly came down heavily on the last two ministers that held sway at the sector.
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Accusing them of failing to deliver on the roadmap plan for the sector, the former Senator therefore called for overhaul of the sector.
Acknowledging the role aviation plays in the economic development and connectivity of Nigeria, he tasked President Bola Tinubu led government to embark on the reset of the sector.
Making case for a comprehensive agenda that will help revitalize and transform the sector to meet the evolving needs and challenges after the deadly Covid-19, Adede declared: “The roadmap has been riddled with litigations, union agitations, apathy from investors and, above all, wrong direction from various ministers of Aviation. I have been in the senate since 1999 and can tell you the last two ministers of Aviation have failed woefully”.
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To the airline chief cum politician, what is presently needed is a complete x-ray of the sector in its entirety, with all operators reexamining and doing a thorough in-housing of themselves in view of the enormous task involved in managing the business of aviation.
Adede, who described ASRTI Q2 2023 brunch business meeting as timely, said it seeks to provide a comprehensive roadmap so that Nigeria can rejuvenate the Aviation sector and make itcontribute to GDP.
He used the opportunity to condemn what he called the disunity among the domestic airline operators spreading across, scheduled, private, charter, helicopter operators.
Citing how the operators work at cross purposes, Adele said: “The fighting has to stop if we must move forward and reposition Aviation sector”.
Speaking on Nigeria airlines expanding to international routes, Senator Adede, while urging the Tinubu-led government to jettison the dream of floating a national carrier and concentrate on growing flag carriers, added: “Support your own so that they can match the foreign ones, give them the enabling environment so that they participate. What we are looking for is Flag carriers, support your own, why do you have foreign airlines fly into Nigeria and you cannot find ground nut onboard, they give you peanuts, you cannot find one Nigeria cabin crew on board, why is our own different because our ministers have sold out?
“I have been in the BASA agreement and the minster sell us out, they do. Yet those of us who fly and connect these foreign airlines to other parts of world if you are going to China for example you see a Chinese cabin attendant on board to serve you Succhi onboard why is our own different, it is because our ministers have sold out on nothing to do with airlines”.
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