By Oyinlola Awonuga (The New Diplomat’s Entertainment Fashion and Sports Desk)
Sam Iwuajuku, the CEO of Executive Jet, the company responsible for the flight that conveyed rapper Naira Marley and BBNaija’s Kim Oprah to Abuja, has penned a written apology to the minister of aviation, Hadi Sirika.
Iwuajuku in the apology letter dated Monday, June 15, said that the flight which conveyed the entertainers was originally scheduled to convey a judge to Abuja on Sunday, June 14.
Explaining himself further, Iwuajoku said when he went through the flight manifest on Saturday, June 13, he saw the name Babatunde Fashola and assumed that the flight was to convey the minister of works.
According to him, he had no idea that the aircraft was conveying the entertainers whom he described as a bunch of ‘useless people’.
Iwuajoku made it clear that the company is sorry for the mistake and it will not happen again.
“We hereby apologise for the above flight with your permit ref: FMA/ATMD/0175/V/V/1268 dated 11th June 2020. Please the flight was to carry a judge to Abuja on Sunday, 14th, June 2020 as requested and the permit was granted based on the application but unfortunately, when I called the Judge on Saturday morning to inform him that we have the permit, he then said he has reached Abuja already with a different flight that someone gave him a lift to Abuja.
“On Saturday morning, June 13, 2020, my staff called and told me that they have a charter flight to Abuja and that the passengers were already at the lounge. As a rule, passenger manifest is always sent to me before any departure. When I went through the manifest and I saw Fashola Babatunde, I thought it was the Minister of Works going to Abuja with his men, so we decided to do the flight, since he is serving Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I didn’t know that it was a bunch of useless people. We are sorry for this mistake and we promise it won’t happen again,” the letter read.
