By Faith
Achanya
A section of the
aviation workers union has been accused of using the union to propagate an
ethnic agenda directed against the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah.
Part of the attack on the minister was that she was employing people who were
of non-Yoruba ethnic stock.But a group, the Middlebelt Vanguard for the
Protection of Ethnic Minorities (MVPEM), in a statement, insisted that the
minister was actually diluting the dominance of the aviation industry by one
ethnic group so as to make available to other Nigerians from other parts of the
country opportunities that should readily be available to them. In a Press
Conference, yesterday in Jos, the Coordinators of the group, Dr. James
Danklang and Esther Martahot, accused some unscrupulous union officials of
threatening the lives of non-Yoruba Nigerians recently employed by the aviation
authorities in Lagos. MVPEM accused them of “playing the script of their
pay masters who have sworn to derail the transformation agenda of President
Goodluck Jonathan, especially in the aviation sector, where the Minister of
Aviation, is taking the sector to heights hitherto considered
impossible. “The Middlebelt will not fold its hands and watch while the
Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah is being lampooned by tribal
jingoists for her efforts in affording Nigerians equal opportunity irrespective
of religion, tribe or creed.
Courtesy
Leadership
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