The Minister of Aviation,
Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah has assured that not long from now, the nation
will welcome a new national carrier in the aviation sector. Princess Oduah gave
the assurance in an interview with Sunday Sun in Abuja last week. She informed
that such platform is long overdue and will be a realized dream soon to make
the sector more robust, attractive and render better service to the nation.
she
said the collapse of the former airline was due to mismanagement and indicated
that there was no need rushing to set another national carrier without clearing
the ground to ensure what happened earlier would not be repeated. “A national
carrier is needful.
We
need to and should have one as soon as possible and we are working very hard on
it. Things actually went wrong in the former venture. So we have to know
actually what went wrong and why. That means redesigning the project and
processes and even the structure to create neutral ownership. We will make sure
that it won’t be solely owned by the government. Everyone has to be part of it
so long as you are interested in investing in it as public equity.
When
it takes off with such structure, all of us that own it would have our eyes on
it to ensure it is managed professionally and that the past mistake won’t be
repeated.” Asked if that would take eternity, the minister, answered in the
negative. And added: “No, it will take off this year. Before the year ends, we
will make public the stage it has got to and that would be a stage ripe enough
for take-off.”
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