Air Peace Chairman Chief Allen Onyema has rejected accusations by citizens of the South-East that he neglected his home base in citing the billion-naira MRO at Lagos Airport instead of Enugu or Anambra Airports.
Onyema responded directly on the WhatsApp platform Igbo communication Professionals.
He said Air Peace was frustrated out of its original intention to site the project at Enugu Airport after approval by the Enugu State Government and investment of millions.
Onyema in his own words:
“On the Enugu thing, please check some news stories during the government of Governor Ugwuanyi. I visited the state officially several times, held meetings with the governor and his cabinet on my intention to be given land to build this MRO that, by God’s grace, will become the biggest in Africa on completion.
Our intentions were announced. In fairness, the Governor truly wanted. However, the usual intrigues and selfish interests from unknown others thwarted our intentions.
No one gave us the land. Some families started claiming ownership of some lands anticipated to be given to us. Airport land! The conflicts started. All my shuttles to Enugu came to nothing. I was pained.
At the Anambra Airport, I paid for land for the MRO facility. I paid over N100m for land there. The next thing was some community and families warning me that the land at the airport belonged to them. That the state government had no right to even build the airport without their permission!
I moved on. The land is still there,
I believe the time has come for Igbos to look in the mirror and see who their true enemies are. When they gaze into the mirror, the real enemy will be staring back at them. Let us, as a people, undertake self-examination before we start complaining!
We moan a lot about everything, blaming everyone, every other tribe, except ourselves!
We are destroying the Igbo land ourselves while blaming others.
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