The Federal Government on Sunday announced that it has impounded a flight owned by a UK company, Flair Aviation, being used to run commercial trips despite an existing travel ban.
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika made known the development via Twitter.
He said: “Flair Aviation, a UK company, was given approval for humanitarian operations but regrettably we caught them conducting commercial flights.
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“The craft is impounded, (the) crew are being interrogated.”
Expressing disappointment over the flouting of the order, Sirika described the aviation company’s action as ‘callous’.
He said that “there shall be maximum penalty” for the company’s decision to run commercial flights in Nigeria adding that it is a “wrong time to try our resolve.”
Recall that the Federal Government had in March announced that all airports in the country will be closed to international flights to prevent further spread of coronavirus.
After the expiration of the initial closure to international flights, the government through the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 extended the measure for another four weeks in May.
