TONGUES are again wagging at the country’s aviation sector this time around based on what stakeholders described as the alleged refusal of the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, to inaugurate the boards of the various aviation parastatals. Recall that the President Muhammadu Buhari led government last December appointed 209 eminent Nigerians as board chairmen and 1,258 members into the government owned agencies and parastatals including those in the aviation sector. It is no longer news that five months after the appointments of the boards with the directive from President Buhari that all the ministers in charge of the parastatals and agencies should inaugurate the boards, the minister in charge of aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, is yet to comply. His decision not to inaugurate the boards has started generating debates within the sector with many asking for reasons behind it. The continuous refusal to inaugurate the boards because of an error will only be like throwing the baby out with the bathe water.

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 17, 2018 01:18 UTC