The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC), a sociocultural group comprising youths of all ethnic nationalities within the Niger Delta area, has known as on operators within the Nigerian aviation sector to keep away from what it known as unhealthy competitions focused at sabotaging opponents.
The group mentioned the decision turned crucial 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 known as falsehood and maintained that Air Peace, certainly one of Nigeria’s frontline carriers and different airways, weren’t blacklisted as being bandied round.
In line with the press launch, “the aviation sector is essential to our financial system and notably within the Niger Delta area the place numerous financial actions involving expatriates are domiciled. It was subsequently crucial 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 world 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 underneath collection of assaults particularly by worldwide carriers.
“This contemporary media assault just isn’t completely different from the value conflict launched by worldwide airways earlier within the 12 months to place Air Peace out of enterprise. The entire speak about contract breaches between lessors and the focused Nigerian airways is nothing however a decoy to create panic and scale back ticket gross sales.
“If not a mischievous plot orchestrated to hurt the fame of burgeoning airways, how might one clarify the truth that lessors to over 13 airways sat and determined to blacklist them on the identical time? Even when this was to occur, did all of the airways breach their contract agreements on the identical time? Can two contracts even be the identical? This and plenty of extra questions beg for solutions,” it maintained.