13 Nigerians from the Niger Delta region, undergoing commercial point training at the Lufthansa Flight Training School in Frankfurt, who have been sent away for non-payment of fees.
It must be stressed that Buhari is yet to appoint a Special Adviser on Niger Delta, who doubles as the chairman of the PAP and the chief executive of the agency, a situation affecting beneficiaries of the scheme
Critical observers have said that the sacking of the trainee pilots is a dangerous development, because the ex-militants were looking forward to having a career after dropping their arms.
According to the Vanguard, the Nigerian pilots who would have graduated from the prestigious aviation training institution, were asked to go last Friday due to their inability to pay for accommodation and training logistics.
More to that, six of the pilots who had already completed their training had their licenses withheld by the school.
It was gathered that two of the students sent home for non-payment, had only one test to complete their Programme for Commercial Pilot Licence, one was in his final stage of the CPL test while four had just started their type rating test and would have completed next month.
A source at the PAP confirmed yesterday that there was money in the account of the agency with the Central Bank of Nigeria but that there was no signatory to authorize the payment to the beneficiaries.
Reports have it that former SA on Niger Delta, Kingsley Kuku had in May written Buhari to either allow him to pay the May financial obligations or appoint a new signatory for the account.
But Buhari looked the other way, claiming he has not found any corrupt-free Nigerian to fill the position.
It must be noted that the ex-militants, spread around learning institutions in Nigeria and around the world, collect a monthly salary of N65,000.
There are fears that except an urgent action is taken, the plight of the ex-militants may not be quickly resolved as Buhari yesterday in his meeting with US President Barack Obama, confirmed that he would appoint his Ministers in September.
In some other related issue, following the tagging of President Muhammadu Buhari as being slow in his style of government even as he has not announced his cabinet members, the national chairman of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, has dismissed the insinuation saying that the president is taking deliberate steps to make Nigeria a better country.
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