President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been charged to prosecute the former minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika who served under the immediate past president, Muhammadu Buhari for scamming Nigeria of N139.3bn using Ethiopian Airlines as Nigeria Air.
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Recall Hadi Sirika, on Friday, May 26, 2023, tweeted celebrating the landing of Nigeria Air.
He was, however, accused to have repainted an 11-year-old Ethiopian Airlines aircraft and presented it as Nigeria Air, the country’s national carrier.
The Nigeria Air is the nation’s proposed national carrier which was unveiled at the Farnborough Air Show in England on July 18, 2018.
The project was suspended two months after it was announced after critics raised concerns over its relevance and sustainability. The airline was expected to gulp $8.8 million as preliminary cost and $300 (N139.3bn) million as takeoff cost.
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