Few days after the tragic crash that involves an Associated Airline plane that killed 14 people in Lagos. The Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, described the accident as God’s will that are inevitable.
She continues, the Federal Government would continue to ensure that there were no more accident.
Let me analyse her statement again: “We do not pray for accidents but they are inevitable. But we will continue to do everything to ensure that we do not have accidents. But an accident is an act of God.
she is telling us that once we Nigerians board a plane our fate is therefore in our hand, an accident might or may not occur.
Maybe she did understood the weight of the content used or maybe she does not understand the grammatical heaviness of the content used.
She further explains: “Again, we do not speculate on the cause of accidents. Until they happen, you cannot say this is the cause or that is not the cause. But what is obvious and is the truth is that, in aviation, there are shared responsibilities, starting from the man that carries your luggage to the man that makes sure that your boarding pass is issued to you
“And so, the regulatory agency, the operators, the management, everybody has his/her responsibility and all must work in tandem for there to be an optimal, secure and safe aviation sector in the country. And that is what we have been working on.”
Oduah described those saying that she left the issue of safety in the airspace to dwell on money-making ventures as ignorant.
She explained that security and safety could not be achieved without proper funding.
The minister said, “I think it is ignorant to say so because you cannot have security and safety without funding. The aviation sector has to be funded. If you are talking safety for instance, you need to have the infrastructure that addresses that. If you are talking security, you need to have the infrastructure that addresses that and all must be sustained and maintained. And if you do not do that you are not just being sincere.
The minister said, “The preliminary report should be out in a couple of weeks. The experts are coming from France and the manufacturer of the aircraft. We must have them regardless of how we want to accelerate the investigation.
“We are waiting for them to come so that we can open the engine and find out exactly from them what went wrong. And you cannot do any of those without their presence. If you do that, then you have contaminated the investigation; so we must wait for them.”
She insisted that notwithstanding the latest crash, Nigerians should not be afraid to fly because the nation’s airspace is safe.
Wait a Minute did you hear that? But i thought she said crashes are inevitable, but why did she further in telling us that we shouldn't be afraid and that the airspace is save?
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