Another Aviation Agency in Nigeria Bought Limos and Cistomised Toyota Tundras for Minister

Another Aviation Agency Bought 4
Toyota Tundras For Minister
Oduah, Alongside Four Limousines
For VIPs
October 21, 2013 - 21:27 — siteadmin
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Stretch limousines parked at TRACON
headquarters in Abuja
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Stretch limos bought for VIPS by NAMA
By SaharaReporters, New York
A new SaharaReporters investigation
reveals that the National Airspace
Management Agency (NAMA), another
agency under the Ministry of Aviation,
also purchased four Toyota Tundra
vehicles for the Minister, Mrs. Stella
Oduah.
Nigerians are currently up in arms
about two armored cars purchased for
her by another agency, the Nigeria Civil
Aviation Authority, at the scandalous
rate of N225million, and many are
calling for her to be fired.
The Tundras are in addition to four
stretch limousine cars that were
allegedly purchased for the movement of
VIPs.
Saharareporters obtained the photos of
the Limousines, which were parked at
the headquarters of the Total Radar
Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON)
grounds in Abuja today.
Efforts to get the NAMA spokesperson,
Supo Atobatele, to comment on the
fresh allegations proved abortive as he
claimed he was driving and could not
speak on the wheel. When later
confronted with the facts, Mr. Atobatele
denied the existence of the stretch
limos claiming that NAMA is a
“professional agency” that provides
navigational aid to aircrafts flying within
Nigeria’s airspace. He hung up and
switched off his phone when further
told that Saharareporters had the
photos.
NAMA’s CEO, Nnamdi Udo, reportedly
made the purchase and ‘donation’ of the
Tundras to the Minister in June 2013.
The four Limousines were received in the
third week of June but have never been
put to use.
Last week after SaharaReporters
revealed the purchase of two BMW
armored cars for the Minister, her aides
and later the Managing Director of the
Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, Fola
Akinkuotu, claimed the vehicles were
meant for VIP movement, but a former
lawmaker and leader of Anti-Corruption
Network, Dino Melaye, told
SaharaReporters today that it is the
duty of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to
transport international VIPs in Nigeria.
He also revealed that the most
important Aviation inspectors are teams
from the ICAO who already have a
Nigerian office which handles all their
transactions.
SaharaReporters could not confirm if
the NAMA limos are armored. It is also
unclear why NAMA, an agency believed
to be cash-strapped, would need stretch
limos that are normally used by
celebrities, to ferry international VIPS.
Meanwhile, a high-level source has
confirmed to SaharaReporters that the
Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria, which
Mrs. Oduah brags about as one of
her achievements in office, provides
epileptic service. Because it often
breaks down, the objective of
establishing a safer national airspace is
said to have been compromised. Foreign
airlines are said to rely on their built in
navigational equipment for air safety
within the Nigerian airspace.