The Commissioner for Works and Transport, Kebbi, Alhaji Abubakar Ladan, has refuted claims of selling the Ahmadu Bello International airport to a private Individual.<\/p>\n
Ladan who made the disclosure to newsmen on Thursday in Birnin Kebbi said the Federal Government has taken over the Airport, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
According to him,\u201d There is no iota of truth in the rumour going round that the state government is planning to sell the Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport to a private individual.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the airports in the country are in the exclusive list. There is no way any state government can convert them as their own or sell them to individuals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how the story came about that the airport (Sir Ahamdu Bello International Airport) had been sold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was it sold to? I want to use this occasion to tell you the true story of the airport.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe aviation sector is in the exclusive list and any state that wants to construct an airport must get a clear approval from the federal government.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, once you construct the airport, you only have the manager, but the technical crew handling the airport is the federal government\u2019s staff and those of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do not have the right to regulate the airport. We only agreed to allow the federal government to take over the airport because of management issue and other things.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not the issue of sales; the federal government took over the airport of Kebbi State, and we demanded that the amount we used to construct it be refunded to the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Kebbi govt denies selling Ahmadu Bello International Airport to private individual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Commissioner for Works and Transport, Kebbi, Alhaji Abubakar Ladan, has refuted claims of selling the Ahmadu Bello International airport to a private Individual. Ladan who made the disclosure to newsmen on Thursday in Birnin Kebbi said the Federal Government has taken over the Airport, NAN reports. According to him,\u201d There is no iota of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7088,7089,443],"class_list":["post-319882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-airport","tag-faan","tag-kebbi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/319883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}