THISDAY

FESTUS KEYAMO AS AEROPLANE SALESMAN

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We now have a new kind of street hawker in the country. He is none other than our esteemed Minister of Aviation, the Honourable Festus Keyamo SAN. In a recently released footage, Nigerians were bewildered to see our great minister and ex-social crusader attempting to take the jobs of the marketing team of that firm in France.

In a dark-hued caftan, he started reading out the numbers on the carcass of the models of aircraft. With so much gusto, he told us things about the carcasses that we didn’t even know. The way he was going at it, you would think he invented the aeroplane. He showed us the toilets, where you flush after dumping; he showed us the windows, taking time to explain how you can open the window mid-flight and touch the clouds.

I was so educated that after watching, even me sef can fly a plane, I tell you. As he walked towards the planes, his cameraman followed him, egging him on and hoping that he would not fall into any hole there while trying so hard to send a message to Nigerians that he was the most hardworkin­g minister of the Federal Republic. Very oblivious of the contradict­ion he was throwing out there, he tried so much to do a Richard Quest on us by walking around the place, arms outstretch­ed, big white eyes staring at the camera as he beckoned on Nigerians to join him on this quest to only God knows whe Be like say oga did not do orientatio­n exercise before he resumed as Minister of Aviation or HR did not properly brief him.

Marketing specific versions of an aircraft cannot be part of the Minister of Aviation’s j But even as me sef no know, don’t let me talk too much before I embarrass myself, for all you know, someone may have smuggled it inside o. Remember that oga is a very brilliant interlocut­or or have you all forgotten his explanatio­n as to why one big Oga did not do WAEC. So let’s all keep quiet and enjoy the show because you never can tell, maybe oga is auditionin­g for an internship with ARISE TV. Wonders can never end.

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