Lamido also exonerated Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella AdaezeOduah from an insinuation that she has driven international airlines from patronizing the MalamAminu Kano International Airport( MAKIA).
The CBN governor also called on the Minister of Aviation, to put all necessary things in place so as to ensure a proper management of billion of Naira being spent on remodelling nations airports .
Speaking in Kano on Friday while commissioning the Remodelled International Terminal of MalamAminu Kano International Airport( MAKIA) said failure to imbibed the spirit of maintenance culture , very soon all these laudable transformation process would be a wasteful venture .
"I am very happy with the level of transformation agenda going on in all airports, but we have to do away from lack of maintenance culture which has been a menace of socio-economic development in this country", he said.
MalamLamido who also stated as someone who hails from Kano, he can attest to the fact that the Aviation minister is not against foreign airlines operating from the state. “I am from Kano , I will disabused the mind of some people who were saying the Aviation Minister does not like International airlines to come to Kano”.
He dismissed the insinuation as erroneous, adding, “if She doesn’t like MAKIA, the huge amount spent on terminal could not have arisen because this projects are what the international airlines use for their operation".
"I am pleased to commission this project today, because my great grand-father commissioned the airport, my grand-father commissioned the International Terminal, and I am commissioning this one today, so please, like I said, we should imbibe maintenance culture, not only in MAKIA but in all the airports across the country".
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