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Arik should be converted into national carrier—Amhed Kuru

&NewLine;<p>At the moment&comma; President Muhammadu Buhari led&NewLine;federal government of Nigeria is reviewing its aviation policies to boost stakeholders’&NewLine;confidence and a safer air for travellers&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Players in the industry are also up in their&NewLine;sleeves&comma; proffering options to the challenges bedeviling the aviation sector&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Ahmed Kuru&comma; Chief Executive Officer of &nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;Asset&NewLine;Management Corporation of Nigeria&comma; AMCON&comma; joined voice with the litany of voices&NewLine;in suggesting solutions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Specifically&comma; he said &nbsp&semi;the government should convert Arik Airline to&NewLine;national carrier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>His suggestion is not unconnected with the&NewLine;worrisome debt profile of not only the airline but other individuals and&NewLine;institutions debts in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Kuru&comma; who stated this at the July edition of the&NewLine;Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting at Oriental Hotel&comma;&NewLine;Lagos&comma; maintained that the government may lose over N5 trillion bad loans owned&NewLine;by high networth individuals who are now in top positions as Senators and&NewLine;Ministers in government &period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My honest advice is that Arik should be&NewLine;converted into a national carrier&period; That is the just the way to go&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;Kuru however&NewLine;submitted that AMCON is &nbsp&semi;working with &nbsp&semi;Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&comma; EFCC&comma;&NewLine;and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission&comma;&NewLine;ICPC including the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation &lpar;NDIC&rpar; to produce a full-length&NewLine;television documentary of notorious and recalcitrant obligors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;He lamented that&NewLine;the disturbing bent of the scenario is that these obligors have cleverly &nbsp&semi;manipulated their way to emerge as members of&NewLine;the national assembly&comma; ministers&comma; chairmen of multinationals as well as&NewLine;Universities’ Pro-Chancellors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;He submitted that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These&NewLine;are men and women who go to banks&comma; borrow monies with no intention to pay and&NewLine;in the process bring down banking institutions&period; It takes a lot for a bank to&NewLine;fail&period; AMCON just rescued Skye Bank with an investment of nearly N1trn&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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