 |
| Captain Dele Ore |
The veteran and doyen of aviation in Nigeria, Captain
Dele Ore has thrown full weight behind agendas of the Federal Government of Nigeria
in the aviation sector which Sen. Hadi Sirika is heading.
While addressing aviation correspondents in Lagos,the former Director of Flight Operations of the defunct Nigeria Airways and immediate past president of Aviation Round Table gave kudos to how the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika is spearheading the aviation industry in Nigeria. When he was asked to substantiate his support Ore said, “I am not advocating for anything new. I have seen 14 or 15 ministers. This is one minister who has related with the industry and continuously trying to say this is what we are trying to do. How many times have you seen minister calling for stakeholders’ meeting ready to talk?. If that is only thing he has achieved, I want to give him my support.I am yet to meet this minister so I can tell him what he is doing and what he needs to do to get better result.”
While addressing aviation correspondents in Lagos,the former Director of Flight Operations of the defunct Nigeria Airways and immediate past president of Aviation Round Table gave kudos to how the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika is spearheading the aviation industry in Nigeria. When he was asked to substantiate his support Ore said, “I am not advocating for anything new. I have seen 14 or 15 ministers. This is one minister who has related with the industry and continuously trying to say this is what we are trying to do. How many times have you seen minister calling for stakeholders’ meeting ready to talk?. If that is only thing he has achieved, I want to give him my support.I am yet to meet this minister so I can tell him what he is doing and what he needs to do to get better result.”
Ore also pointed to the effort of Sirika in the
re-election of Dr. Aliu as the President of ICAO Council. “When the re-election
of Dr. Aliu was coming, you saw how this minister mobilised his team. They were
there. To me, that is International Relations”.
On temporary closure of runway of Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport, Abuja Ore said: “It is now dawn on us that the runway
will be repaired sooner or later. In fact, nearly 15 years too late that we
should have done it and we have been endangering the lives of people for so
long. And that is why I want to pitch my tent to support this current
government to be bold enough to say, Let us close it down. I was shocked to
hear it in the news that AON was suggesting that they will be working on one
side and using the other side.”
On using Kaduna Airport as the alternate airport while
the Abuja airport is temporary shut, Ore said Kaduna Airport has always been
used for Hajj operations with big aircraft with heavy load. “Now, Kaduna
Airport has even improved. There is a connecting train. One hour or one and
half hours luxurious air conditioned that can start running every hour and on
the hour back to Abuja. That makes it
better than Kano and also makes it better than Minna. Kaduna is not too hot
like Kano because it is 2000 feet above sea level. Kaduna has been tested
because during Hajj”.
Ore who was the Chairman of Concession Committee during
the Yar’Adua administration supports concession of the airports as proposed by
the government. “Concession of the airports is the way to go”
No comments:
Post a Comment