Serving ministers own some of the companies handling contracts in airports scattered across the country, the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, Values and Ethics, Honourable James Faleke, has disclosed.
Faleke, in an exclusive interview with Sunday Tribune, maintained the stand of the House to expose everyone involved in unethical practices in the aviation industry, saying; “On the aviation contracts that we are probing, we went to the Corporate Affairs Commission and found out that most of the companies handling the contracts awarded are ministers’. Even if that is the only thing we would achieve in this House, we will expose everybody involved in this aviation corruption.”
He noted that a particular contract was “to provide new security strategy for airports at the cost of N9.4 billion and they have paid N6.247 billion to this contractor. This is just one out of about 100 cases. The issue is this; what is new security strategy? When they say aviation is working, the issue is; at what cost? And then, a contractor that is asked to renovate Enugu Airport is the same that is asked to renovate Port Harcourt and Kano airports. And these are contractors without pedigree.”
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