BY RALPH EJIMKONYE
Two South East Governors and three of their counterparts in other states of the federation, have been denied flight approval to travel out of the country since the airports in the country were closed and lockdown order by President Muhammadu Buhari
This was revealed by Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika
According to the Minister, three of the Governors are of the All Progressive Congress, APC.
He revealed also that two of the Governors are also from the South-South zone and one from North Central zone.
He did not disclose their names.
Sirika spoke in Abuja Tuesday at the daily news briefing by members of the Presidential Task Force.
He said “There is no exception to governors. I have denied several of such flights. Including two governors from South-south, two from South-east and by the way, three of them are members of the APC and I think one is from North-central.
“Every single flight that we approved and will be approved will be an essential flight and 98 percent of the essential flight will be connected to COVID-19.
“A few of them, maybe 1 percent may be either repatriation, requests from the diplomatic community, which must go through foreign affairs, or repatriation due to illness of another kind which will be medical-kind and those evacuations will also need a stamp of a teaching hospital.
“For a flight to be approved, it shows that it is diligently done. It must be essential, COVID-19 related or other essential flights like cargo that will bring in medicines or equipment or other things related to COVID-19 or our whole well-being like food.
“Please trust us and bear with us for this period but it will end soon by God’s grace,” he said.
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