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The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika may have sought approval for a N2 billion grant from the presidency and to site the Ogun airport project at Wasimi in Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state, it was learnt yesterday.
The state governor, Dapo Abiodun and his predecessor, Ibikunle Amosun have disagreed over the airport project and its location.
While Abiodun prefers an Agro-Allied Cargo airport, located at Ilishan-Remo, Ikenne Local Government Area, Amosun is pushing for a passenger airport at Wasimi.
Findings by Daily Trust indicated that Sirika in 2018 made a request to President Muhammadu Buhari for the establishment of a passenger airport in Wasimi in May 2018.
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The House of Representatives has invited the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, to appear before its Committee on Aviation to explain how bandits gained entrance to the Kaduna airport and kidnapped 11 persons.
At the plenary on Wednesday, the House unanimously adopted a motion moved by Mr Musa Pali, who prayed the House to “invite the Minister of Aviation to brief the Committee on Aviation on how the bandits gained entrance into the Kaduna airport and how to prevent future reoccurrences in the nation’s airports.”
The House, which unanimously adopted the motion, also urged the Inspector–General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and other security operatives at the nation’s airports to “beef up security prevent such breach and to secure the release of the abducted people and fish out the bandits.”
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By Levinus Nwabughiogu – Abuja
House of Representatives on Wednesday, urged the federal government to reopen the international wings of Kano, Enugu, and Port Harcourt airport shutdown down at the peak of the lockdown occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemics.
The House also urged the Presidential Taskforce on COVID–19 to urgently direct the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN to place COVID–19 preventive protocols ahead of the formal re-opening of the airports.
The call was a sequel to a motion by the majority leader of the House, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the deputy minority leader, Toby Okechukwu, and 34 others at Wednesday plenary.