House of Representatives said on
Thursday its resolution asking the Federal Government to revoke the
operating licence of Dana Air was irreversible.
It said the
recommendations of the House report on the June 3, 2012 Dana Air crash in Iju
Ishaga, Lagos, should be fully implemented by government.
One of the recommendations
demanded the sacking of the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority, Dr. Harold Damuren, for alleged professional misdeeds.
A member from Delta State, Mr. Osai
Osai, in a motion, observed that the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah,
flouted the House report by authorising Dana Air to resume operations on
January 4 while the lawmakers were on break.
Osai recalled that the minister
allowed the airline to resume operations without “first addressing many issues
that arose from the June crash, like safety and payment of compensation to
families of victims”.
On the Dana licence, Osai said the
House called for its revocation on the grounds that “it was not issued in
compliance with NCAA Regulations Guidelines 2009”.
He noted that another recommendation
asked the Central Bank of Nigeria to “recover the N35.5bn intervention fund
extended to Air Nigeria through the United Bank for Africa, but which was
diverted to other private usage.”
Osai stated that rather than
implement the recommendations, Oduah ignored the House report by vacating the
earlier “grounding order” on Dana Air.
Speaker of the House, Mr. Aminu
Tambuwal, who presided over the session, did not allow further debate on
the motion.
He admitted an amendment to the
motion by a member from Abia State, Mr. Uzor Azubuike, directing the Committee
on Legislative Compliance to “ensure that the House resolution on Dana Air
crash is implemented”.
The motion was endorsed in a unanimous
voice vote.
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