Grandiose Parlor

“It was the pilot’s fault“, says Nigerian Aviation Minister less than 48 hours after the recent airliner crash in Nigeria. Just days earlier, the nation marked the one year remembrance of the victims of a jetliner crash, the first in the series of four air crash fatalities in the past 12 months.

Whatever convincing evidence the Minister had to prompt him to make this call; it was definitely a hasty call that really didn’t bear much difference from that made by the pilot of the ill-fated flight (if indeed he was warned of the bad weather).

The standard procedure is to refrain from making categorical statements until proper investigations have been conducted. If the chief aviation officer for Nigeria is not aware of this standard aviation protocol, then is it still a surprise that Nigerian airliners have turned into flying coffins?

After seeing the tragically grotesque smoldering wrecks of four crashed airplanes, with the mangled bodies of their occupants, it is far becoming too familiar a sight, and grossly embarrassing. So if the Minister has nothing intelligent to say, he should keep his mouth zipped. In fact going by trend of events in his ministry over the last 12 months, his utternances have stopped being meaningful, if they ever were.

After unprecedented four aviation crashes in 12 months; shouldn’t the aviation minister just quit and go home? He has nothing else and left to prove. He definitely has some bad karma working against him. Afterall his name is “Aborishade”, mabe he needs to make peace with the ‘Orisha’ (deity) that surrounds with. May his record remain undisputed!