The Senate had on Tuesday directed the minister to stop the planned demolition of the offices of aviation agencies pending the outcome of the intervention made by its committee.
, Hadi Sirika, has said there is no going back on the planned demolition of the aviation agencies’ offices in Lagos.
He claimed that the intention of the aviation ministry was to remove the structure housing the office of the managing director of and other commercial buildings and replace them with hotels, shopping malls, cinemas and other lucrative businesses that will increase revenue of the ministry. “And the entire people in that entire building they are like 150 or 200. Government is going to continue of course, Senate is advisory, it’s an executive function, we are not bound by any court of law and government cannot be stopped from giving development to its people.
“This is in national interest. There’s no individual that can drag it out with government. If I want to pull down this hall and build a better one, who is going to stop me as a government?
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