By Dickson Omobola
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, Thursday, disclosed that the pilot and crew of the private aircraft that landed on a road in the Ogwashi-Uku area of Delta State are still in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, saying the outcome of the investigation would be shared with the President.
Keyamo also revealed that plans were underway to construct a superhighway that would run behind the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and connect to the Mafoluku area.
He spoke on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, where he also allayed fears over the safety of Nigeria’s airspace, adding that more unviable airports would be concessioned.
On airspace safety, he said: “If you take the volume of air travel that happens in Nigeria vis-a-vis these isolated incidents you mentioned, then you will realise that we are dealing with less than one per cent of one or two incidents here that did not even result in fatalities. That means our airspace is very safe. Since 1960, it is under President Bola Tinubu administration that we have scored the highest in terms of International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO, audits. For the first time in history, we scored 91.4 per cent this year in terms of our safety and oversight standards.”
