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December 13, 2005
Nigeria - Wake Up: An Opinion on Recent Plane Crashes
by Emmanuel Egwuagu --- Questions to Nigerians: are you all blind to see what is happening? Within the space of two months, there have been three plane crashes involving airline providers that do not include Virgin Nigeria !!! Ironic!! So, Virgin Local is now the safest airline in Nigeria......Yeah Right!!!!
Virgin has withdrawn direct flights to Port Harcourt. So, we can only get direct flights to Lagos and Abuja on their so called Virgin Nigeria International. Now, for me to travel to another city like Port Harcourt, I will have to book another flight "Virgin Nigeria Local" at an additional cost?
Sorry, this is all about money and we Nigerians are too thick to see how they manupulate us. Who owns Virgin Nigeria? Who are the investors?
It is monopoly, as they know we are the most frequent travellers in the whole world. So they take advantage of our stupid, ignorant, greedy nature to feed their dreams.
Wake up Nigeria, wake to the reality of life and stop the western world and those nigerian government theives from selling the country.
Posted by Administrator at December 13, 2005 05:38 AM
Comments
I will agree to your conspiracy theory only when airline operators in NIgeria stop buying over-used airplanes from the West. The plane is 35 years old for Christ sake. The JAT engineers left it since 2004. Have your flown any SoSOliso airplane before? I had, and it was rickety and crappy inside. Let's stop blaming others for our stupidity and reliance on "tokunbo" equipment to survive.
Instead of blaming Virgin, why don't youu call a spade a spade and blame the Nigeria government that cares less about its citizen.
Do you know that some policemen stopped me when I travelled home. They found nothing incriminating in car. Yet, they demanded for bribe. What was their explanation? They stated that it was a crime to be a Nigeria. This is Nigeria for you.
NIGERIAN ALWAYS ATTRIBUTE GOOD LUCKS TO GOD AND BAD LUCKS TO SATAN. NOBODY TAKES FULL RESPONSIBILITIES IN THAT COUNTRY.
And for enlightened person like you to suscribe to "conspiracy" theory when the fact stares you in the face is not doing the majority of the uneducated, misinformed locals any good.
Posted by: NTIWA at December 14, 2005 04:41 AM
One of the major diseases among the airlines in Nigeria is 'Lack of proper maintenance and safety'. This feat is the only reason I never boarded any local airlines whenever I travel to Nigeria. I would rather prefer the buses. The luxury buses are even safer nowadays.
I am in Naval Aviation and I know what the maintainers go through in troubleshooting faults and getting spare parts. I do not think that safety and safe operation is a priority in Nigeria's Aviation Ministry. Corruption has continued to become the order of the day. This is one of the factors that contributed Nigeria Airways liquidation. I am glad that OO is fighting corruption but how long is it going to last? May be Nigeria will not be better in this our generation.
Jude C. Ezedike
Orange Park, FL
Posted by: JUDE EZEDIKE at December 15, 2005 07:00 AM
Airlines are making record profits while endangering the lives of people when they use OLD, poorly-maintained aircrafts. Besides, what is this government doing to revamp the aviation sector?
Air travel, elsewhere, is the safest means of travel, but that seems not to be the case in Nigeria.
3 aircrashes in 3 months is highly UNACCEPTABLE. Heads must roll in the aviation sector. The minister of aviation must go, and thorough investigations must be carried out to fix this mess.
Otherwise, we run the risk of inspiring trepidation for would-be air travellers, and a CONSIDERABLE DECREASE IN AIRTRAVEL. The ramifications are scary enough!
Posted by: Anaedo at December 16, 2005 04:12 AM
