Internationally celebrated Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin has lambasted former Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika for his religious hypocrisy.
According to a tweet on his verified Twitter handle, Sirika, who was yet to explain to Nigerians what he did with the N85Bn he claimed to have spent on a non existent national carrier -Nigeria Air had become a “Twitter Quranic Instructor”.
Hundeyin’s tweet said;
“This one is now tweeting exclusively in Hausa and every tweet contains “Ya Allah” this and “…(SAW)” that. After looting the Aviation ministry and buying a Bombardier private jet for himself, o ti di Qu’ranic instructor l’ori Twitter. And his audience will definitely buy it.
Recall that some days to the end of Buhari’s administration, Sirika had organized a static display of an aircraft branded and labeled ‘Nigeria Air’ to justify the humongous amount of money allegedly spent on the project.
Two days after the static display, flight live tracker ‘flightrader24.com’ showed the Nigeria Air plane was back to Ethiopia where it was brought in from.David Hundeyin, independent journalist, had drawn people’s attention to the flight tracker.“Behold your freshly commissioned “Nigeria Air” Boeing 737 heading back to Addis Ababa right now as we speak, where the hurried paint job will be removed and it will go back into @flyethiopian regular service,” Hundeyin had said.Three days after, the live tracker showed the aircraft was back to regular flight service for Ethiopian Airlines on its Addis Ababa-Mogadishu route, which appears to be the same route it flew before being brought into Nigeria and presented as Nigeria Air plane.
Hundeyin, again tweeted: “The ‘Nigeria Air’ Boeing 737-800 has had its hurried wrap job removed and is now back in regular service for @flyethiopian on its usual Addis Ababa-Mogadishu route – the same route it flew as recently as last week before being “commissioned” in Abuja by @hadisirika,” Hundeyin stated.
It was therefore, not surprising, that the House of Representatives has faulted the Nigeria Air purported launch of May 26, 2023, stating that Sirika, and other proponents sought to hoodwink the country.
Nnolim Nnaji, Chairman of the House Committee on Aviation, declared the launch of Nigeria Air a fraud.The Ministry of Aviation claimed Nigeria Air was only unveiled and not launched, which the committee dismissed as an attempt to divert the lawmakers’ attention.Members of the committee were shocked when Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) disclosed that the aircraft bearing Nigerian colours was on a chartered flight to Nigeria.
Yet, despite all these damning revelations of looting the National treasury as Minister of Aviation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is yet to go after him, making Netizens to conclude that “President Tinubu had been instructed not to probe him”.
