‘Ex- workers not responsible for Nigeria Airways failure’

Former workers of the defunct national carrier, the Nigeria Airways were not responsible for the killing of the airline, it has been observed.

A former worker, Mallam Bello Salihu said he and his colleagues who worked with the national carrier have been exonerated.

The exoneration, according to him, stemmed from the establishment of Med-View Airline which he noted has become a reputable brand floated by an ex-worker of the defunct airline.

Speaking with newsmen during the recent inaugural flight of Med-View Airline’s Lagos-Kaduna-Kano-Jeddah flight, Salihu who is the Managing Director, Butake Resources Limited, a Kadunabased ground handling company declared that former workers of the defunct carrier have the competency to successfully run an airline.

It would be recalled that former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2004 liquidated the carrier over alleged mismanagement and corruption.

Worse still, the workers of the airlines have fought relentlessly for the payment of their pension which up till today is still being anxiously awaited.

Speaking at a separate forum, Captain Robert Emmanuel Hayes, the first Nigerian pilot and the country’s first captain who was recently honoured as the recipient of 2017 KARIS Award organised by the Household of God Church in Lagos said government must have its reason for liquidating the carrier.