NAMA Bought Toyota Tundras For Oduah

A new SaharaReporters investigation
reveals that the National Airspace
Management Agency (NAMA),
another agency under the Ministry
of Aviation, also purchased four
Toyota Tundra vehicles for the
Minister, Mrs. Stella Oduah.
Nigerians are currently up in arms
about two armored cars purchased
for her by
another agency, the Nigeria Civil
Aviation Authority, at the scandalous
rate of N225million, and many are
calling for her to be fired.
The Tundras are in addition to four
stretch limousine cars that were
allegedly purchased for the
movement of VIPs.
Saharareporters obtained the
photos of the Limousines, which
were parked at the headquarters of
the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria
(TRACON)
grounds in Abuja today.
Efforts to get the NAMA
spokesperson, Supo Atobatele, to
comment on the fresh allegations
proved abortive as he claimed he
was driving and could not speak on
the wheel. When later confronted
with the facts, Mr. Atobatele denied
the existence of the stretch limos
claiming that NAMA is a
“professional agency” that provides
navigational aid to aircrafts flying
within Nigeria’s airspace. He hung
up and switched off his phone when
further told that Saharareporters
had the photos.
NAMA’s CEO, Nnamdi Udo,
reportedly made the purchase and
‘donation’ of the Tundras to the
Minister in June 2013. The four
Limousines were received in the
third week of June but have never
been put to use.
Last week after SaharaReporters
revealed the purchase of two BMW
armored cars for the Minister, her
aides and later the Managing
Director of the Nigeria Civil Aviation
Authority, Fola Akinkuotu, claimed
the vehicles were meant for VIP
movement, but a former lawmaker
and leader of Anti-Corruption
Network, Dino Melaye, told
SaharaReporters today that it is the
duty of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to transport international
VIPs in Nigeria.
He also revealed that the most
important Aviation inspectors are
teams from the ICAO who already
have a Nigerian office which handles
all their transactions.
SaharaReporters could not confirm
if the NAMA limos are armored. It is
also unclear why NAMA, an agency
believed to be cash-strapped, would
need stretch limos that are normally
used by celebrities, to ferry
international VIPS.
Meanwhile, a high-level source has
confirmed to SaharaReporters that
the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria,
which Mrs. Oduah brags about as
one of
her achievements in office, provides
epileptic service. Because it often
breaks down, the objective of
establishing a safer national airspace
is said to have been compromised.
Foreign airlines are said to rely on
their built in navigational equipment
for air safety within the Nigerian
airspace
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