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Fani-Kayode, Stella Oduah in ‘war of words’ over aviation management

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode,
yesterday, took up the incumbent, Stella
Oduah, describing her as being unnecessarily
petty in the handling of issues relating to
the industry.

Fani-Kayode, who was responding to remarks
made by Oduah against him, said that the
incumbent Aviation minister and not him was
the one who should bury her head in shame over the shambolic handling of the industry since her appointment.

Oduah had yesterday in Abuja dismissed Mr.
Fani-Kayode over his ignorance, adding that
his comments on the aviation sector conveyed
the impression that he was under an unnatural influence.

She spoke in response to a reporter's question during the opening ceremony of the African Regional Conference of Civil Aviation Navigation Organisation, CANSO, in Abuja.

She further stated that working with CANSO
over the years had been fulfilling and
enriching.

Said she: "The nation has had its fair share
of challenges in the aviation sector but has
adopted an attitude of refusing to relent in
moving forward as a key strategy for
improvement in the sector."

According to her: "Aviation which is one of
the drivers of the economy has ensured that we achieve double digit economic growth."

However, Fani- Kayode said that the remarks by the minister against him were uncalled for, malicious and petty.

"She reportedly said that I should bow my head in shame, suggested that I was "speaking out of context'' in my essay where I called for her resignation and that I spoke under some "influence of something or other."

His words: "My advice and counsel to her is to grow up and stop being petty. She is meant to talk like someone who befits her office and not like a market woman.

"I do not like joining issues with women
publicly which is why I was very gentle with
her in my essay though I made my point. But
this particular woman is endangering the lives of our people with her incompetence and insensitivity and we cannot just keep quiet.

This is a woman under whose watch almost 200
people have been killed as Aviation Minister
and instead of focusing on how to save lives
her obsession has become smearing and abusing Femi Fani-Kayode.

This is a woman who only yesterday told
Nigerians that 'accidents are inevitable' and that they were 'acts of God.' This is a woman who thinks more about how her head scarf looks, her jewelry and the jewelry of others more than she does about protecting Nigerian air travelers.

If anyone should bury her head in shame it is her and not me. After just under 200 of our fellow citizens have been killed under her watch instead of abusing her critics and those of us that have expressed our concern and offered our advise she should be seeking
repentance from God and tendering her
resignation.

She should be attempting to encourage the
Nigerian people and assuage their fears rather than indulging in petty and cheap sideshots and a futile press war.

Instead of comforting the families of those
that were lost she is opening her mouth and
abusing me. What a shame. Under her tenure we have beautiful terminals but deadly and blood- soaked skies. Our skies have become a death trap because she really doesn't care.

My advice to her is to shut up, get serious
and focus on doing her job rather than
attempting to smear me with her filthy lies
and malicious innuendos.

I raised some serious issues in that essay
that was clearly above her education level and I avoided personal insults.

That is what civilized people do. She should
learn from that and address the issues that
were raised rather than spend her time trying to kill the messenger. When someone says that God is the author of fatal crashes you know that it is not the same God that we worship as that person.

It is the devil that causes accidents and
kills people and not God. You can say that a
fatal accident is an act of God only if the
devil is your god.

When I speak and write I am under the
influence of one thing and one thing alone-
the Spirit of the Living God who sees through her and who knows her for what she is.

She is the one that is under the influence of one thing or the other and not me. She is the one whose hands are filled with blood.

She is the one that must bury her head in shame and no-one else. I will pray for her because she needs it and I will pray for Nigeria too.

May God deliver us from these people," Fani-Kayode added.

Earlier, the Aviation Minister, Mrs Stella
Oduah had stated that the transformation
agenda of the present administration was
anchored on a road map for the aviation
industry.

Said she: "The thrust of this road map is
safety, safety and security."
She further said that an important aspect of
the strategy for developing the nation's
aviation sector is infrastructural
development.

According to her, the Federal Government
through the Nigeria Air Space Management
Agency, NAMA, had embarked on the re-
organisation of the sector.

She cited the execution of the Total Radar
Coverage of Nigeria, TRACON, project under
NAMA as one of the achievements of the present administration.

The completion of the project has resulted in other benefits like radio coverage of the
nation's airspace. NAMA has put all these in
place with the assistance of the Federal
Government."

She, however, said that her ministry would
continue to partner with the nation's
political leadership to achieve its goals.
In his own speech at the occasion, the
Managing Director of NAMA, Nnamdi Udo showered praises on the Federal Government for transforming the nation's air traffic
navigation services, adding that given the
technology Nigeria had put in place, the
nation had keyed into the role of making
aviation in the Africa region a seamless
process.

In his own remarks on the occasion, CANSO
Director-General Mr Jeff Poole outlined the
organisation's vision to improve aviation
safety and achieve seamless airspace across
Africa.

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