House of Reps Committee Directs Aviation Ministry To Suspend Nigeria Air

The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has directed the Federal
Ministry of Aviation and its partners in the Nigeria Air project to immediately
suspend flight operations and every other action with respect to the airlines. The
resolution came during an investigative hearing as the Permanent Secretary of the
Ministry and other stakeholders appeared before the committee.

In a resolution of the committee read by Nnolim Nnaji, the Chairman of the
Committee, the committee said the process was shrouded in secrecy. The
committee urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to constitute a high-level
Presidential Committee to undertake a holistic Review of the Processes of the
whole Nigeria Air project and advise the government on the way forward.
It also urged that all individuals, groups, or organisations involved in the
controversial “Nigeria Air Take-Off” project are brought to book, prosecuted and
sanctioned.

Part of the resolution reads: “A careful review of the process indicates the exercise
to be highly opaque, shrouded in secrecy, shoddy and capable of ridiculing and
tarnishing the image of Nigeria before the international community. We want to
put on record, that the Committee and indeed the National Assembly had no role
in the purported launch of Nigeria Air or anything related thereof”.