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Foreign airlines will be paid their unrepatriated funds – FG

Keyamo expressed President Bola Tinubu's concern on the matter.

Samiah Ogunlowo By Samiah Ogunlowo
September 15, 2023
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The federal government says it is currently working to repay international airlines whose funds are trapped in the country.

Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, made the announcement on Thursday at the 7th African Aviation Summit in Abuja.

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According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), $812.2 million in foreign airline funds are being held in Nigeria as of June 2023.

Keyamo expressed President Bola Tinubu’s concern on the matter, assuring that efforts were being made to ensure that the funds of foreign airlines were repatriated.

“In fact, it is one of the issues we went to discuss in the UAE,” he said.

“I spoke with the minister of finance and the coordinating minister of the economy and he has given an indication that within the next few weeks, the Central Bank of Nigeria will be very clear as to the timeframe or the programme within which these issues will be addressed.

“They will be paid off; these are not loans, they are trapped funds, they are funds that are there, it is only the issue of liquidity that is our problem.”

Keyamo added that liquidity issues are being addressed “as I speak right now”.

“It is something that the president is very concerned about, and that issue, I said that we have addressed it in the UAE and very soon, you will hear from the financial sector,” he said.

‘Keyamo seeking reciprocal rights for airlines operating between Nigeria and the UAE’

Following a meeting with the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the federal government stated that Emirates and Etihad Airlines are expected to resume flight operations in Nigeria immediately.

The news comes ten months after Emirates suspended flights to Nigeria due to an inability to repatriate $85 million in revenue.

When asked if the airlines would begin operations in the coming months, Keyamo said the government is working “on the fine details.”

“We are working the details out. When two countries agree at the very top level, then of course, all the government operatives will begin to work out the tiny details,” the minister said.

“So, we are beginning to work out all the tiny details. I met with Emirate before I left UAE, I met with Etihad before I left UAE and we are working out the details.

“The time frame, we cannot say the time frame. Kicking off an airline operation again on a route, it is not that you will go and grab one empty plane sitting in a place.

“There is no idle plane sitting anywhere, they have to reschedule their flights, restart their routes again, and all kinds of things.”

Keyamo also stated that he was seeking reciprocal rights for airlines operating between Nigeria and the UAE under bilateral air services agreements (BASA).

“All kinds of permission will be taken from local authorities and of course, I made the point in speaking with them and I made it clear that they will have to give our airlines reciprocal rights under our BASA,” he said.

Keyamo went on to say that the airlines agreed that “any spot we need, they will give us as much as we give them within Nigeria.”

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