By David Kabiyesi
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, stated in strong terms that the proposed concession of airports in the country will amount to enrichment of few unpatriotic Nigerians and their foreign cohorts at the detriment of Nigerians and the eventual enslavement of the public infrastructures.
Towards this end, the lawmakers then resolved to put on hold the idea which was championed by the immediate past government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The House unanimously adopted the motion and mandated the committee on aviation (when constituted) to investigate Nigerian Airport concessions and report back for further legislative action.
Recall that Kama Nkemakonam moved a motion, tittled “Need to Investigate the Concession of Airports in Nigeria”, at plenary.
“That our major airports in Lagos, Abuja, and Kano have remained by consistently subjects of controversies due to entrenched personal interests that have undermined the laws of the land, irrespective of the occasional efforts of our anti-corruption agencies, such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC.
“That the myopic, personal interests of these economic vampires have relegated ouso-calleded international airports to mere airstrip status after almost seven decades in the industry, and can never be compared witgloballyal renowned airports, such as Heathrow, Dubai, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Qatar, Vancouver, and others.
“Disturbed that even on the African continent, where one of every six Africans is a Nigerian, population-wise, the South African pairs of Tambo-Johannesburg and Cape Town, Cairo, Casablanca-Morocco and Houa
