Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Construction, Festus Keyamo, has accused former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of hypocrisy over the liquidation of Nigeria Airlines in 2004 and the alleged failure of the management he served in to pay former employees their pensions and gratuities.
In a commentary addressed to Atiku on social media, Keyamo mentioned the management of former President Olusegun Obasanjo liquidated the nationwide service in September 2004, leaving hundreds of Nigerians jobless and inflicting hardship for affected employees and their households.
“Your Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, that is hypocrisy at its height! Let me simply communicate best concerning the sector that I head, Aviation,” Keyamo mentioned.
He alleged that the federal government didn’t pay the previous employees’ pensions and gratuities, which he mentioned amounted to billions of naira.
“So as to add salt into their wounds, you refused to pay them their pensions and gratuities, working into billions of Naira,” he mentioned.
Keyamo mentioned President Bola Tinubu’s management was once now addressing the phenomenal bills, claiming that the President had licensed and launched N36 billion to supply aid to the affected employees and their households.
“Twenty-two years later, after lots of them have died out of frustration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is now clearing the mess you left at the back of. Over a month in the past, Mr. President licensed and launched the whole sum N36 billion to carry succour to those households,” he mentioned.
In line with Keyamo, the beneficiaries had begun receiving cost indicators, whilst the employees’ union had recognised Tinubu with an award for the intervention a couple of weeks previous.
“They have got began receiving indicators and praying for Mr. President. Actually, the President was once given an Award for this by means of the employees’ union a couple of weeks in the past,” he mentioned.
The aviation minister additional accused Atiku of taking credit score for selections made by means of the Obasanjo management when handy whilst distancing himself from accountability at different instances.
“But you sit down down there and preach? It’s best the more youthful ones who don’t know your historical past you’ll try to hoodwink, however we can reveal you to them. You can’t conceal your inordinate ambition in a cloud of rhetorical gibberish,” Keyamo mentioned.
He added, “When it’s handy for you, you declare some credit score of the Obasanjo-Atiku executive and when no longer handy, you are saying Obasanjo was once in rate and no longer you as Vice-President. The correct posturing of a con artist!”
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