The Senate on Tuesday raised the alarm over the inclusion of projects already listed as 99 per cent completed in the 2016 Budget of the Ministry of Aviation.
This was during the defence of the 2016 Budget of the Ministry.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Hope Uzodinma, who raised the query, said the deplorable state of the nation’s airports called for concern.
Uzodinma urged the Minister of Aviation, Rotimi Amaechi, who led the budget defence team, to ensure that adequate steps were taken to reposition the nation’s airports.
The lawmaker, however, observed that the ministry included some projects contained in the first phase of the airport remodeling in the 2016 budget when work was almost 99 per cent completed.
The remodeling of the airports was started by the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
Parts of the projects were supervised by the then Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, who is now a member of the Senate.
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