Aviation authorities in Lagos attempted a vigorous
push back on Tuesday report that the nation’s
aviation minister, Stella Oduah, abused her office
by compelling the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority,
NCAA, to purchase two armoured BMW cars for her
worth N255 million.
Talking to PremiumTimes, Aviation spokesman,
Yakubu Datti, dismissed SaharaReporters story as
“rumours” suggesting that it was politically
motivated. Despite SaharaReporters paper proof.
He said:
I don’t respond to rumours…[and] as we approach
2015, people are bound to make up all sorts of
stories.
This is a woman (Mrs. Oduah) who is successful
and established. A woman that made her mark in
oil and gas, who owned trucks, barges, and so on.
What is two cars?”
Mr. Datti dismissed such claims, adding that Mrs.
Oduah lived a life of comfort graced by generosity
in which she “buys cars and dashes to people” long
before she became a minister.
Also, when contacted, Joe Obi, the minister’s
spokesperson, promised to get back to PREMIUM
TIMES after “verifying the story and the document”
published alongside the article.
He said:
“At the moment, I can’t give you any response
because I need to authenticate the documents
published on the website. We would do that
shortly,” he added.
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