The Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development debunked reports on Tuesday that it plans to move a fire-fighting simulator from Zaria to Lagos State.
The Ministry refuted the rumour in a press release signed by Tunde Moshood who is the spokesman to the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo (SAN) after its attention was drawn to the video which has gone viral.
Moshood said the video making the rounds is that of a motion moved on the floor of the House of Representatives by an Honourable member making reference to an unsubstantiated plan by the Ministry to move a fire-fighting simulator out of the Nigerian College of Technology, Zaria, to Lagos.
The Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, through the statement signed by Moshood, has, however, urged the House to restrain the move.
“The rumour is nothing but pure mischief by agents of destabilisation and is totally untrue,” Keyamo’s spokesman stated.
“Whist we acknowledge the patriotism of the House entertaining the motion, we think it was totally unnecessary since the Speaker already had a private audience with the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development few days ago when this issue came up.”
According to Moshood, the Minister assured the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, that there was no iota of truth in the rumour.
He said Keyamo further put a call to the Rector of the Nigerian College of Technology, who re-assured Abbas that it was an unfounded rumour and purely a mischief.
“So, why the motion? We urge the public to disregard any such rumour, and it amounts to grandstanding by anyone still trying to make political gains out of nothing,” Moshood said.
