We didn’t inflate NCAA car budget –Aviation Ministry

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By LOUIS IBA

The Federal Ministry of Aviation has debunked claims that it jerked up the NCAA budget for the procurement of operational vehicles from N240 million to N643 million. "Nothing can be further from the truth," said Joe Obi, spokesman for the ministry while debunking the claims credited to Mr. Joyce D. Nkemakolam, the Director of Aerodrome and Airspace Standards (DAS) and former acting Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) at the time of the transaction.

Obi said Nkemakolam who appeared before the public hearing by the House of Representative on Thursday never made such a statement indicting the Aviation Ministry.

Said Obi: "It is shocking that the 'revelation' was said to have been made during Thursday's OPEN Public Hearing by the House Committee on Aviation into the circumstances surrounding the purchase of security vehicles by the NCAA.

"For the avoidance of doubt, we hasten to declare that throughout the duration of the hearing, there was never a time Mr. Nkemakolam, who made the presentation on behalf of the NCAA, or any other official of the agency for that matter, said the Ministry of Aviation increased or jerked up the agency's budget," Obi added.

According to him, the hearing was conducted in the open before television cameras and in the presence of journalists from other media outfits. Obi, who frowned at the way Nkemakolam's statements at the public hearing had been twisted to indict the ministry, challenged "anyone with evidence supporting the statement credited to Nkemakolam to the effect that the ministry jerked up the agency's budget to come forward with such."

 

 

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