FG Rejects Air Travel Requests by Five Govs

From Chinedu Eze

The Federal Government yesterday said that it declined the requests of five governors to travel by air in compliance with the travel restrictions imposed in the country to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This was disclosed yesterday by the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, at a press conference in Abuja.

Sirika explained that two governors from the South-east, one from the North-central and another two from the South-south regions had made requests to travel by air but he turned the requests down in strict compliance with the federal government’s flight restriction policy.

The minister, however, did not explain whether the governors wanted to travel out of the country or they wanted to travel locally.