Buhari, CPC blame disaster on corruption

Posted by admin Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Monday, June 4th, 2012

The ill fated plane

FORMER Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday expressed shock over the Sunday’s DANA air crash.

Undoubtedly, Buhari said the corruption in the aviation sector is seen in the fact that: “two former Ministers of Aviation are undergoing prosecution for corruption.

“This pervasive corruption by the successive PDP-led Federal Government, as regards administration of the aviation sector, have corrupted this important sector of the nation state that industry’s best practices are often circumvented at will by the airline operators. The result of these infractions is what we witness with Air disasters!”

According to a statement in Abuja by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, Buhari was quoted as saying the CPC calling for the probe of the crash.

He, however, said: “But we doubt the sincerity of the PDP-led Federal Government in unearthing the real causes of these disasters.”

Fashakin said the weak handling of the probes will never get the country to develop positively.

The statement reads “The national leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR and the entire leadership of the party hereby commiserate with the families of the victims of the DANA air crash of Sunday, 3rd June, 2012. Our hearts truly go out to these Nigerians at this very difficult time of sudden bereavement.

“Indeed, this latest aviation disaster coming a day after another Nigerian plane crashed in Ghana is already causing concern among Nigerians that hoping this is not the signal for the return to the corruption-induced era of incessant air crashes under the PDP-led administrations! “This is coming when we seem to have heaved a sigh of relief from the air-crashes in the last six year. Though we may join concerned and patriotic Nigerians in calling for judicial probe of this latest intrusion of the hitherto tranquil atmosphere, we doubt the sincerity of the PDP-led Federal Government in unearthing the real causes of these disasters.

“The feeble handling of the probes shows in the way and manner the recommendations are never implemented! For example, on the 4th of May, 2002, an EAS aircraft (with 77 on board) crashed in Kano.”

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