By Uche Mbah
The dust is yet to settle on the Jabi Hall concert, where the weird Musician Naira Marley organized a concert in their park. The hall was sealed by the Abuja Municipality Council recently, But there have been no talks of sanctioning Naira Marley. Now the Ministry of aviation has sanctioned the Airline that airlifted the musician to Abuja.
This Magazine had reported that Naira Marley was spotted disembarking from a chattered Aircraft from Lagos to Abuja for the Show. The Jet was Execujet, owned by billionaire Sam Uwajoku. Now, Execujet has been suspended indefinitely by the Minister of Aviation for false information and for flying Naira Marley to Abuja for the June 12 Concert. Still, there is no talk of sanctions against Naira Marley.
Announcing this Monday during the daily briefing of the presidential task force on COVID 19, the Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika said that the flight was approved for a different reason-to convey a Judge from Lagos to Abuja and back on an official assignment, but that the ministry was misled because the Airline instead airlifted Naira Marley and a former BBN housemate to Abuja.
Besides grounding the Airline, the flight crew will be punished, he said.
“We approved a flight indeed, but not for any musician. The approved flight was to convey a Justice on official assignment but ExecuJet illegally used it to convey the Musician to Abuja for a concert. We have suspended Execujet’s operations indefinitely. It will also be fined”, Sirika said.
Naira Marley had organized a concert in Abuja Jabi Hall park where the Social distancing was ignored and the law on gathering was thrown overboard. After that, the Abuja Municipal council sealed up the hall.
Naira Marley is not new to COVID 19 controversies. Only recently he attended a birthday party organized by the Nollywood thespian Funke Akindele. Akindele was fined and forced to do community service but Naira Marley escaped with a slap on the wrist.
