Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, have charged aircraft manufacturer, Boeing and other investors to report any official requesting bribe before they can conduct business in Nigeria.
Keyamo spoke on Wednesday during a meeting with Boeing executives in Seattle, Washington.
The minister, who led a delegation of executives from major airlines under the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) and other key stakeholders in the civil aviation ecosystem, promised new investors that nobody would frustrate them.
He explained that the goal was to open doors for everybody to come into Nigeria.
He said, “So for new investors who are coming to Nigeria, they are welcome. Nobody is going to frustrate you within Nigeria. If anybody tries to frustrate you by asking for gratification or anything, report him to me, I will take action.
“We want to open the doors for everybody to come into Nigeria.”
The minister led the delegation to facilitate the acquisition of dry lease aircraft for domestic airlines and sign an aircraft maintenance agreement.
During the meeting, he also assured that the aircraft leased to domestic airlines will be safe in Nigeria.
“I want you all to see me, here, as the minister, I’m giving a personal guarantee, beyond the compliance with the law, personal guarantee, that I will not tolerate the frustration of any agreement with any lessor based in Nigeria, the aircraft coming to Nigeria.
“I will give a personal guarantee of safety of these aircraft, and repossession of those aircraft, whether through the judicial process, or through the NCAA, which I supervise, through a judicial process, through an administrative process, and you know, the Cape Town convention says five days, we can be multi-registered, within five days.
“I will make sure we can do it within four days, we can register our aircraft. It’s a personal guarantee. Read my lips, I’m going to do it,” he added.
