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General News of Sunday, 10 May 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Ayade tells Buhari to lift ban on domestic flights

Governor Ben Ayade Governor Ben Ayade

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has appealed to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to lift the ban on domestic flights.

This is coming after the Federal Government further extended the suspension of local and international flights by four weeks.

While inspecting asphalting of the dualised Odukpani-Calabar highway on Sunday, Ayade lamented that the ban has continued to negatively impact Nigeria’s aviation, hospitality and tourism sectors.

“The suspension of domestic flights has affected most hotels leading to their closure. It is so bad that most hotels, including the 5-star hotels, are shutting down because they cannot sustain the cost of diesel for their generating sets and as that happens, they start laying off workers.

“So you have a lot of workers, young people who used to work in the hotels and tourism industry out of jobs. And the big question is, how long can this continue? The caterers who supply food to the hotels are all out of business. All the suppliers are out of business.

“We continue to lock the domestic airports for another four weeks, what are we going to have in terms of economic loss and in terms of social delinquency? The associated moral and social tension that will come with it will be just too huge for the country to bear,” Ayade warns.[Daily Post]

Cross-River is yet to record a case of the deadly coronavirus with over 4,000 cases in the country according to the NCDC's re