Gbajabiamila to meet with CBN governor over aviation crisis

House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila

The House of Representatives

By EricJames Ochigbo

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has scheduled a roundtable for Oct. 20 with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor and the Minister of Finance over the crisis in the aviation sector.

Gbajabiamila said this at the end of a meeting with stakeholders in the aviation sector on Monday in Abuja.

He said that the meeting was aimed at resolving the lingering aviation crisis.

“The Governor of the CBN and the Minister of Finance are not here today because they are at the ministerial retreat going on in the Presidential Villa.

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“I am glad that we have taken your submission. There are a lot of things to unbundle, and we have rescheduled the meeting so we can chart a way forward.

“While we try to look for solutions, I will plead with the foreign airlines to show some good faith and open up your portal for business to continue as usual so that Nigerians can purchase your tickets so that your traveling agents can work.

“While you go back to the status quo, we will look into how you can repatriate your funds. “If it requires a special intervention or whatever, we will find a way to deal with it, “he said.

The stakeholders at the meeting included the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Airlines Operators of Nigeria (AON), travel agencies and other actors in the aviation industry.

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