The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC), a sociocultural group comprising youths of all ethnic nationalities within the Niger Delta area, has referred to as on operators within the Nigerian aviation sector to keep away from what it referred to as unhealthy competitions focused at sabotaging opponents.
The group stated the decision grew to become obligatory following a publication that about 13 Nigerian airways have been blacklisted by worldwide plane lessors for varied contract breaches, together with Air Peace.
In a press launch despatched to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday by the Nationwide Coordinator of NDYC, Engr. Jator Abido, shortly after the information article was printed, the group frowned at these behind what it referred to as falsehood and maintained that Air Peace, one among Nigeria’s frontline carriers and different airways, weren’t blacklisted as being bandied round.
In keeping with the press launch, “the aviation sector is essential to our financial system and notably within the Niger Delta area the place a variety of financial actions involving expatriates are domiciled. It was due to this fact obligatory for us to instantly confirm the authenticity of the declare particularly because it touched on a really key participant within the business with an enormous presence in our area.
“Sadly sufficient, no such factor has occurred as our investigation has revealed that these behind this fabrication are those that are intimidated by the towering enterprise success of Air Peace and different airways who’re breaking into worldwide locations and gaining momentum by the day.
“We frown at such barbaric ways employed by different airways working in Nigeria together with worldwide carriers and beseech the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and different regulators to behave quick to forestall future prevalence as that is able to inflicting panic amongst air vacationers with hostile results on the financial system.”
The group famous that since Air Peace went international and took enterprise management over the Lagos-London route and different promising worldwide locations, ending the cycle of exploitation of Nigerians, the airline has come below collection of assaults particularly by worldwide carriers.
“This recent media assault isn’t totally different from the value conflict launched by worldwide airways earlier within the yr to place Air Peace out of enterprise. The entire discuss contract breaches between lessors and the focused Nigerian airways is nothing however a decoy to create panic and cut back ticket gross sales.
“If not a mischievous plot orchestrated to hurt the repute of burgeoning airways, how may one clarify the truth that lessors to over 13 airways sat and determined to blacklist them on the similar time? Even when this was to occur, did all of the airways breach their contract agreements on the similar time? Can two contracts even be the identical? This and plenty of extra questions beg for solutions,” it maintained.