Stella Oduah: Reps Give Committee On Aviation 168 Hours To Investigate N255m Armoured Cars

As the National
Assembly
resumed following the Sallah break, the House of Representatives, Tuesday,
mandated the House Committee on Aviation to investigate the alleged
purchase of two bullet proof BMW cars valued at N255 milion for Minister of
Aviation,Princess Stella Oduah.
The Reps instructed the House Committee on Aviation to submit the report of
its findings within 168 hours, one week, to the House for further
deliberations.
This development was sequel to a motion brought to the floor of the House
by Rep Samson Osagie, APC, under matters of National Importance and
seconded by Rep Shehu Gusau, APC representing Zamfara state .
In his motion, Osagie asserted that investigations into the purchase of
$1.6million bullet proof BMW cars by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
(NCAA) for Minister of Aviation, pursuant to Section 88 of the Constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) has become mandatory.
According to him, “given the poverty and unemployment ravaging our dear
nation and its people, it will be absurd, unthinkable and indeed unpatriotic
for an agency of government to connive with its political head to incur such
an expenditure simply for the comfort and safety of one public officer”.
Speaking further, Osagie said, “over the past four weeks, the nation has been
inundated with the news of the purchase of $1.6m BMW bullet proof cars by
the NCAA for the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Adah Oduah”.
“The furore generated by the said matter have left tongues wagging as the
sincerity and objectivity of this administration’s stand on fight against
corruption as again re-emphasized by Mr. President’s nationwide broadcast
on October 1st 2013″.