Why I don’t fly local airlines in Nigeria – Deputy Speaker, Lasun

By olayinka October 21, 2016

The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun, on Tuesday, explained that he refuses to fly local airlines due to their poor service delivery.

He said this while 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 speaking at the hearing, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika disclosed 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.

The Minister while commenting on the suspension of domestic flights said some airlines were “structurally deficient and financially unhealthy.”

Sirika had in May said some airports in the country will be concession due to poor facilities .