Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Chief Festus Keyamo has disclosed the Nigeria Air project, had been suspended and a report submitted to President Bola Tinubu on the next line of action.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Keyamo disclosed this at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Monday in Abuja.
While stressing he would not want to pre-empt the decision of the president on the matter, the Aviation Minister, however, disclosed that various issues surrounding the deployment of the airline was appropriately tabled in the report to the president.
Keyamo said at the right time Nigerian would be informed of the circumstances of the airline and when a new one would take off.
Keyamo also said that the council ratified the Bilateral Air Service Agreement with the Republic of Guyana, which was signed since 2014.
He said that the agreement would bring about lesser air travel time for passengers going to most European countries.
Keyamo also disclosed that the Federal Government is to procure customised explosives and narcotic detection screening system with remote and dual view for five international airports to reduce the stress encountered by passengers.
He said that the contract was coming on the heels of the administration’s concern for the long delay and complaints by passengers using airports across the country.
He said that the N3.28billion machines would be installed in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu Airports, adding that it has a completion period of 12 month from date of payment.
“Since I came to office, we have been inundated with the harrowing experience that passengers go through at the airports where they have to physically search their bags. You see various agencies lined-up and they will be dipping their hands into your bags.
“We thought we should do something like you have the TSA in America where you have detection machines so when you pass your bags through their machines it detects explosives and any other thing and that’s the end of the search,’’ he said.