Lagos — Accident Investigation Bureau has denied a report that it got and wasted a N1.7 billion contract for charting of the flight route undertaken by the ill-fated Wings Aviation Beechcraft 1900D, which crashed last year, enroute Bebi Airstrip, Cross River State .
Reacting to a recent media report on the crash, the Bureau's Head, Media Affairs, Tunji Oketunbi, said "we hereby deny that we spent N1.7 billion on a charting contract or any contract for that matter for two reasons. The entire budget of AIB for a year is not up to one billion naira. It is, therefore, unimaginable how the Bureau would spend N1.7 billion on a contract. Besides, AIB is not a service provider and is not involved in the charting of Nigerian airspace. The allegation was therefore, misdirected."
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