The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has said the total debts owed aviation agencies by Nigerian airlines are over N513 billion.
The minister, who seemed angry with the airlines for kicking against the Single Africa Air Transport Market, said Nigerian airlines had refused to grow, noting that they supported the liberation of African airspace when they felt that it would favour them, but were now opposing it because of lack of capacity.
The minister lamented that the airlines wanted the Federal Government to renege from its commitment to the Yamoussoukro Declaration, which is the liberation of Africa’s airspace because they could not compete effectively and urged them to come together
