Daily Independent (Lagos)
Festus Owete And Otei Oham
3 December 2008
House of Representatives Committee on Aviation on Tuesday directed agencies and parastatals in the aviation sector to recover all debts owe them.
Failure to do so, the committee would ensure that the debtors are barred from operating in the country.
Committee Chairman, Bethel Amadi, who gave the directive at a press conference in Abuja, lamented that the agencies are being owed billions of naira, adding that the committee would not accept the development because of its effect on the infrastructure at the airports in the country.
He listed some of the affected agencies as Nigerian Airspace Management Authority (NAMA), Nigerian Civil Authority (NCA) and Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which he said is being owed N6 billion.
He said some of debts have been hanging in the last five years.
"The current state of indebtedness of parastatals and MDAs in the aviation sector by various service companies in the sector is totally unacceptable and condemnable. That the idea of some airlines, oil companies, concessionaires and service companies utilising the facilities and services of these parastatals for profit without fulfilling their financial obligations to these parastatals cannot be allowed to continue.
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