House Of Reps Probe N400billion Used For Upgrade Of Airports Under Ex President Goodluck Jonathan

The House of Representatives has direceted if’s committe on Aviation to investigate the N400 billion appropriated for the expansion, modernisation and management of 17 domestic and five international airports by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The job of the committee is to determine while the Airports are still nothing to write home about after spending such a huge sum.

The house took into consideration a recent report put together by Cable News Network (CNN), World Airports Survey that rated three of our airports namely; Port Harcourt, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Murtala Mohammad International airports among the 10 worst in the world with Port Harcourt leading the pack.Speaker Yakubu Dogara

Mover of the adopted motion to probe the huge spending by Garba Datti (APC, Kaduna) wondered why ‘’ why the Federal Ministry of Aviation, after it obtained a $1 billion Chinese loan to improve facilities such as toilet, conveyor belts, avio bridges buses, software infrastructure and security in general would not live up to it responsibilities. ’’ in his presentation.

He noted that noted that with the whopping sums injected into the aviation sector for the upgrade of airports, rather than turn out to be symbols of national pride, they have become objects of condemnation

The motion to probe was adopted after it was put to a voice vote by the presiding officer, Deputy Speaker Yussuff Lasun.