Nigerians are calling on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to investigate Hadi Sirika, the former aviation minister under Buhari’s government over corruption allegations related to the establishment of Nigeria Air.
The pressure in the public space is coming after the revelation last Tuesday by the acting managing director of Nigeria Air, Captain Dapo Olumide that the aircraft reportedly brought into the country penultimate week as belonging to the airline was actually chartered from Ethiopian Airlines to show off.
The allegations of Sirika spending billions of naira on the project have prompted the nation’s call on anti-corruption agencies to investigate and arrest him.
The pressure to arrest Sirika who is said to be a nephew of Buhari was being pushed strongly on Twitter early Thursday morning.
Here are some tweets gathered by GistReel;
David Hundeyin PA @iamdlaw2:
“The money Hadi Sirika used to hire Ethiopian plane, rebranded and painted it before flying into Nigeria can be used to build over 400 classrooms blocks drill over 5000 boreholes for community without a single source of water. This is just for the show of shame only”
Olu @empror24:
“Ethiopia Airlines officials are culprits with suspect criminal investigations of Nigeria Air; Nigerian Taxpayer money to their pockets. EFCC should do the needful to the Minister of Aviation Mr, Hadi Sirika.He needs to refund our money spent on renting the aircraft & deco paints.”
Dan Atim @OfficialDanAtim:
“If @officialEFCC cannot arrest and prosecute Hadi Sirika, Abubakar Malami, Emefiele, Sadiya Umar and other Buhari appointees who stole billions from govt then, Tinubu appointees will continue the looting spree”
Bigwig Austin™ @aai_austin:
“Buhari kept borrowing money every four market days only for the borrowed money to be looted or siphoned by Hadi Sirika & his colleagues in govt Now we owe N77trn debt, subsidy had to be removed so we could pay for their stolen loans God punish u & ur family for supporting APC”
Usen @OliverUsen:
”So, when will EFCC and @icpcnigeria invite Hadi Sirika for questioning? Let it be known that Buhari and Osibanjo ran the most incompetent and corrupt government ever.”
Other stakeholders have also condemned the unveiling of the aircraft which they tagged as a “desperate act”, alleging that the minister “imported a repainted” an aircraft owned by Ethiopian Airlines.
