PRESS RELEASE.
CPC commiserate with the crash victims’ families.
The National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR and the entire leadership of the Party hereby commiserate with the families of the victims of the DANA air crash of Sunday, 3rd June, 2012. Our hearts truly go out to these Nigerians at this very difficult time of sudden bereavement.
Indeed, this latest aviation disaster coming a day after another Nigerian Air Plane crashed in Ghana is already causing concern among Nigerians that hoping this is not the signal for the return to the corruption-induced era of incessant air crashes under the PDP-led Administrations! This is coming when we seem to have heaved a sigh of relief from the air-crashes in the last six years.
Undoubtedly, the corruption in the Aviation sector is seen in the fact that two former Ministers of Aviation are undergoing prosecution for corruption. This pervasive corruption by the successive PDP-led Federal Governments as regards administration of the Aviation sector have corrupted this important sector of the Nation state that Industry best practices are often circumvented at will by the Airline operators. The result of these infractions is what we witness with Air disasters!
Though we may join concerned and patriotic Nigerians in calling for judicial probe of this latest intrusion of the hitherto tranquil atmosphere, we doubt the sincerity of the PDP-led Federal Government in unearthing the real causes of these disasters. The feeble handling of the probes shows in the way and manner the recommendations are never implemented! For example, on the 4th of May,2002, an EAS aircraft (with 77 on board) crashed in Kano. This crash occurred in the mad era of abridgment of International best practices and a probe was instituted. First, the Flight recorder (aka Black Box) was reported not seen. Eventually, a black box was dubiously brought that revealed more than two and a half hours of flight time. Indeed, no flight in Nigeria is that long. Suffice to say that, with the ruling PDP style of rewarding incompetence, unprofessionalism and corruption, the Chief Executive Officer of that Airline has bounced back as the PDP- governor of a North-central state!
The current problems besetting the Nation are daunting enough; hiccups in the Aviation sector would be too burdensome for the citizenry. This is why we call on the Federal Government to see stability in the Aviation sector as a sacred duty for ensuring a tranquil polity.
God bless Nigeria.
Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.)
National Publicity Secretary, CPC.
(Monday, 4th June, 2012).
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