‘Nigeria Air can’t take off without NASS approval’ – Senate

The Senate has said Nigeria Air cannot take-off without the National Assembly having a say in it.

The Senate, through its aviation committee, stated this in an interactive session with stakeholders in the aviation industry.

The Chairman of the committee, Biodun Olujimi, reminded the stakeholders that the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had at the last interactive session given a roadmap for the ministry and promised that the airline would be launched in December before it would go public.

Olujimi also noted that the Senate had it on good authority that there was a court injunction involving the Federal Government and local carriers under the name Airline Operators of Nigeria preventing the ministry from going on with the national carrier.

In his response, the minister, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Emmanuel Meribole, told the Senate that the launch of the airline was disrupted.

Meribole explained that one of the court injunctions was to stop negotiations between the ministry and Ethiopian Airlines pending the conclusion of the matter.

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