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The Ebonyi State Government, has said it is not true that the Chuba Okadigbo International Airport has been converted to an event centre.
Commissioner for Aviation and Transport Technology in the State, Dr Mrs Ngozi Obichukwu who dismissed the reports, described it as unfounded while emphasizing that the airport was never used as an event centre.
According to her, it was for the lifting of over 204 overseas scholarship students who boarded the aircraft and left to their academic destinations.
She warned fake news peddlers in the state to desist from portraying the international airport in bad light, adding that the Chuba Okadigbo International Airport had since one month recorded over 22 flights operations from Ebonyi to Abuja and Ebonyi to Lagos.
Obichukwu called on the citizens of the state, foreign and national agencies partnering the Chuba Okadigbo International Airport to ignore the fake news, stressing that it was the handiwork of mischief makers who are hellbent to tarnish the good work of the state with the intent to satisfy their pay masters.
She emphasized that the purpose of holding the flag off ceremony of the 2024/ 2025 scholarship scheme at the Chuba Okadigbo International Airport by the state governor, Francis Nwifuru, was to enable the oversea scholarship students to board their flight immediately, maintaining that there is no way the flag off can take place in a different venue and it won’t affect the students.
Obichukwu enjoined citizens and prominent stakeholders of the South-East extraction to come to the airport to take their flights, assuring them of adequate safety of their lives and property.
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