No Nigerian is prevented from investing in Nigeria Air
| The Minister of Aviation,Senator Hadi Sirika has said that no law banning any Nigerian from investing in the new national career,Nigeria Air . Sirika made this known in Lagos while speaking with Aviation journalists. “Nigeria Air is a limited liability company known to the Nigerian laws in the corporate affairs commission. If anybody wants to come and invest in that company, there is no law in Nigeria that stops him from doing so.” According to Sirika,If there were foreigners coming to invest, nobody stops them from investing. “You can own a company 100 percent. I am not aware of that anyone is in court to challenge the national career project.” “I don’t have any court paper, otherwise, I am not interested. I cannot see any rational court that will say that I am stopping somebody from establishing a company”. “What would you say to Shell, Unilever, Julius Berger? There are companies in Nigeria registered by Nigerian law and people are coming to invest. This is what we want. We want Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). If people or Nigerians are investing in the airline of $200 million into Nigeria and so what? We want more of them.” On planned demolition of buildings of former headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)Nigerian Airspace Management Agency,(NAMA), Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority(NCAA) offices for Aerotropolis,the Minister said he has no regret for the decision. “Assuming that is even correct, I wish it would happen tomorrow morning. This eye sore is what you want as an airport? Aerotropolis is part of the roadmap. Don’t you want a rail link between the old and the new terminal. Don’t you want better structures with cinemas, spars, shopping malls, banks, airlines offices and befitting headquarters in Lagos.” “ Is the chaos around here what you want as an airport? Should we continue to live like this but when you travel to Dubai or Ghana, you come back to say, this is wonderful! Same us will go to Ghana, take pictures to come and show us by saying see common Ghana and their infrastructure. Is that what you want? Given the chance, I will demolish all the ramshackle facilities in this airport to pave way for better airport city.” “ I told somebody that I am going to demolish from where Arik/ Nigeria Airways, the police, the Aerocontractors to Bristow and put something that is befitting of Lagos. This is our premier airport.” — |
