* Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River
…Says Ayade’s Administration Cannot Compromise The Safety Of Its Citizens
The Cross River State Government has stated that Air Peace flight carrying 35 Americans or any other flight did not land at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport on Monday evening.
The reaction is coming on the heels of insinuation in some quarters that the flight in question which took off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA),Lagos landed at Calabar Airport
The Special Adviser to Governor Ben Ayade on Media & Publicity, Mr Christian Ita, who dismissed the landing of the flight in a statement today, explained that there was arrangement in place for the flight to come but the Governor of the state, His Excellency, Governor Ben Ayade, outrightly refused.
According to him, “While there was indeed a curious arrangement to have the flight come to Calabar, His Excellency, Governor Ben Ayade, however, refused outright to allow the airline fly into the state in line with his order to restrict flights as well as other cross border movements on land, air and sea.”
“The Ayade administration cannot compromise the safety of its citizens, no matter how tempting the prospects. The purported air peace flight never came to Calabar,” he added.
AbelNews learnt that the decision not to allow the aircraft to land may be attributed to fears that these Americans may import Coronavirus into the state,considering the fact that the state has not recorded any confirmed case of the deadly Coronavirus going by the statistics reeled out by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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