Hadi Sirika, previous air travel minister, granted multi-billion naira air travel agreements to his member of the family while he held sway as minister.
EFCC declared the scams amounted to N2.7 billion, and the criminals did it in the Nigerian Air Project.
Sirika now deals with 6 counts of abusing his workplace, according to court files.
The EFCC implicated him of providing excessive benefit to some business in between April 2022 and March 2023 in Abuja.
He presumably granted a N1.3 bn consultancy agreement for the Nigerian Air Start-up to Tianero Nigeria Limited.
The commission stated the ex-minister acted contrary to Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.
Sirika, the commission likewise declared, utilized his position to ‘give unreasonable benefit upon Al Buraq Global Investment Limited. The business promoters are Fatima Hadi Sirika and Jalal Sule Hamma, his child and son-in-law respectively”.
Above all, the EFCC stated Hadi Sirika did these”while being the Minister of Aviation and in such capability as a public officer.
In April, Sirika came in for interrogation, and he stayed in the commission’s custody for a while.
This time, the previous minister, his child, and his son-in-law will be standing trial before the FCT High Court Justice Sylvanus Orji.
Months earlier, your home Committee on Aviation required prosecution of those associated with the job. The call followed the unveiling of the Nigerian Airline whose very first airplane came from the Ethiopian Airline.
The preliminary scams claims stood in the area of N8 billion. Leading authorities of the ministry stated there was no unveiling yet due to the fact that the essential accreditation had actually not been finished.
According to them, the overall quantity the ministry had actually invested in the tasks didn’t surpass N3.8 billion.
The job had actually belonged to the previous administration’s effort to develop a nationwide provider for Nigeria.