Keyamo comes up with law compelling public officials to fly Nigerian airlines on international routes

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has put forward a law compelling public officials to fly Nigerian airlines on international routes.

Keyamo offered the proposal on Sunday during the ceremonial send-off of Air Peace’s inaugural direct flight from the Federal Capital Territory to London Heathrow Airport. It was held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and was attended by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, and Air Peace Chairman, Allen Onyema.

At the event, the Minister said that the Federal Government would soon come up with a bill tagged the Fly Nigerian Act.

“We are going to bring the bill on the Fly Nigerian Air to him (Benjamin Kalu). He will pass it.

“The Fly Nigerian Air is to mandate every government official travelling abroad to patronise our local airlines if they are flying that route first, except there is no local airline flying that route,” Keyamo said.

Outlining how the law would work in practice, the Minister of Aviation said that, “If a government official, member of the House of Representatives, member of the Senate, Minister, DG, or government official is flying to any part of the world, the first question you ask them is: Is there a Nigerian airline flying that route? You must buy that airline ticket first, except that they are not flying that route. That is the Fly Nigerian Act that we want to do”.