Former Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika has “dismissed claims” that the “Air Nigeria project” conceptualized by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari was a “scam.”
Speaking on “Channels Television’s Morning Brief” on Tuesday, Sirika, a two-term minister, stated that the government “followed due process.”
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“I had no intention to speak about my time in office for now, I intend to bring up a book.
“It is a public-private partnership which was regulated by the Infrastructure Concessioning Regulatory Commission who gave certificates, participated actively in the process.
“It is a lie that I spent N100 billion and it is lost in the process. The total budget for the national carrier was N5bn, the total amount released was N3 billion and I left the ministry with over N1 billion,” he stated.
The “Nigeria Air” project was launched at the end of the Buhari administration, with many observers describing the initiative as a “fraud.”
The launch took place despite opposition from the “Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON),” a group of domestic airlines, who had already “sued the Federal Government over the project.”
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