Yesterday being Wednesday, The
Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Hope Uzodinma, said that
the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) purchased a total of
two armored for Aviation minister, Stella Oduah and another two for
its Managing Director, George Uriesi.
Mr. Uzodinma spoke to newsmen on
the sidelines of the investigation into the purchase of two armored vehicles by
the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)
for Aviation Minister Oduah.
He said that FAAN Managing Director, Mr. Uriesi, told the
committee on oath that his agency purchased 202 operational cars and two
bullet-proofs cars for the office of the managing director.
“The managing director of
FAAN said they did a funding arrangement with a commercial bank,’’ he
said.
Senator Uzodinma, who said investigations were still ongoing,
promised that the committee was committed to undertaking a holistic probe to
ensure that all anomalies were corrected to reposition the sector.
.Mr. Uriesi told the committee that the vehicles
included two Lexus Limousine cars and two Prado jeeps.
He said that contrary to
insinuations, the limousines were purchased at the cost N60 million each and
not N70 million.
Mr. Uriesi, who said that he did not have details of the cost
of the Prado jeeps, however, said the vehicles were still in the custody of the
bankers which funded the purchase.
The committee ordered the managing director to appear before
it on Nov. 4, with comprehensive details of the transaction and the
documents for all the purchases.
Why all this controversies? They haven’t even defended the
previous purchase of two armored cars for the aviation minister by the Nigerian
Civil Aviation Authority which gulped a whooping sum of N255 million.
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