Skip to main content

THE REPORT FROM THE ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BUREAU ON THE DANA AIR CRASH

Yesterday was World Consumer Rights day and I was saddened because we do not have consumer rights protection in Nigeria. The world consumer rights day coincided with a landmark judgment by a federal high court against Nafdac and The Nigerian Bottling Company(makers of popular soft drinks Coke, Fanta and Sprite) on a case which was in determination for eight years
when it was discovered that a combination of Fanta or Sprite with Vitamin C is poisonous.

But what this is really about is the lack of Consumer Rights Protection laws in Nigeria. Foreigners who come to do business in Nigeria are aware of these and use our countrymen/women as specimen on whom they can test anything on with nobody protecting them.

A Dana Aircraft crashed in 2012 and after the crash, a source told the press that the aircraft was not fit to fly in the first place and was undergoing engine repairs but the management of Dana airlines(who are Indians by the way) asked that the aircraft be flown after it was just returning from a trip so they could make money. All for the Accident Investigation Bureau of Nigeria to come out to say that the crash was the pilot's fault since one of the engines of the plane failed 17mins into the journey. Did the pilot not know that his bosses knew about the engine fault and still asked him to fly because they had been managing the plane like that for weeks? The painful part of this story is that months after the crash happened even before investigations into the crash were concluded, Dana airlines had been re-licensed to continue flying. That same year in the Philippines, a boat sunk before it reached the dock in manilla and the captain was charged with manslaughter. Why can't our leaders protect their citizens? Now the pilot is dead and cannot clear his name and for Dana airlines, business continues. Govenor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has even partnered with them to operate Imo Air. For how long will things like this continue in this country? How long are we going to be at the mercy of our government and the foreigners who come here to exploit us and make money? A business in which safety is the keyword is what you are managing an aircraft with faulty engines and the pilot is to blame. That is ridiculous. The innocent citizens who died in the crash have paid with their lives a price for a country where everything is inefficient including the government.

The case has been laid to rest and Dana airlines exonerated. May their souls rest in peace.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN THIS GOVERNMENT: REAL OR SELECTIVE

President Muhammadu Buhari's selling point coming into the 2015 general elections was his would-be fight against corruption which many Nigerians said was Nigeria's biggest problem and which the international community also said was Nigeria's bane of development. His reelection in 2019 also echoed the same thing although many Nigerians were of course saying they had seen his true colours. In this government's fight against corruption, so much has been witnessed. There have been several convictions of high profile politicians but only people not at the core of the government or those who do not share the same religion with the president. Many embarrassing cases have been swept under the carpet like those of the former secretary to the government of the federation, the reinclusion of a wanted former government official (who was answering for his crimes as ex pensions boss) in this government,  most recently the appointment of a former politician who was tried in court for...
Post a Comment
Read more

FREE LEAH SHARIBU!

My heart bleeds as I write this. I'm literally weeping as I pen this down but I know that there is hope. The existence of God tells me so. It's been over a year since this girl was abducted alongside her school mates but while others were freed, Leah Sharibu remains in custody for refusing to denounce her faith and convert forcefully to Islam, the religion of the dreaded boko haram sect. What bothers me is the silence of the Muslim community and powerful leaders across the world on this matter. What I don't understand is why people cannot call a spade a spade. Why cannot they come out to speak out against mindless religious radicalism , oppression and persecution of Christians all over the world? What efforts have been made to free Leah Sharibu and others like her still in captivity? How long will this continue?  I think it's a decision world leaders need to make on the benefits of Islam to mankind. Honestly speaking,  world over the only people guilty of terroism are...
Post a Comment
Read more

LOVE IS OVERRATED

We often mistake lust for love and many people mistake infatuation for true love. So many people preach that if you are no longer happy in a marriage then you should just call it quits. How about telling people to remember what made them happy in the first place and work on getting back to that place. A man wakes up in the morning and tells his wife he wants a divorce because he has fallen in love with someone else even when children are involved. The fact that you once proposed marriage to a person means you once considered her above every woman, how then do you discover years into the marriage that you love another? Especially after having kids. You probably have seen a slimmer woman or a pretty face or a sexy woman and concluded that you now have a new love. The desire for something new is not usually love but an attraction which can be classified as lust or infatuation. Any time you put your new flame above your children, then you know that you are deep in lust. Sex is an integra...
Post a Comment
Read more