tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540911873094895295.post1621556745239066545..comments2024-03-20T01:16:54.017+00:00Comments on Akin Akintayo: Nigeria: My Observations of the Dana Air Crash AftermathAkin Akintayohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14254117443398207562noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540911873094895295.post-49766261039104997472012-06-10T02:56:22.305+01:002012-06-10T02:56:22.305+01:00Nice write up Akin.
It's incidents like this, ...Nice write up Akin.<br />It's incidents like this, that expose our lack of preparedness to deal with the challenges of today. It exposes the pervasive slackness and corruption that manifests itself in organisations, and procedures that are dysfunctional in Nigeria.<br /><br />Those, within these organisations and the people that work within them are not working effectively. I was surprised that the minister of aviation was so keen to write off any hope of survivors being found. Maybe they knew, the health services are so inadequate, it would have been better for them to die in the field than suffer an agonising death inĀ "hospital".<br /><br />We really have no excuses. This was Lagos, not the Adamawa highlands. People love to cite how "developed" Lagos is, when put to the test, they fared no better than so-called "undeveloped regions"<br /><br />This is not the first time such incidents have occurred in Nigeria or involved Nigerian airlines. In the last decade aire crashes have occured 4 times in Nigeria under the Obasanjo tenureship. Now he has left office, and things have reverted to the old way ie slackness and corruption and the air crashes have resumed. Sacking the minister is not the solution, a wholesale root and branch review needs to be put in place & implemented and more importantly maintained.<br /><br />You highlighted the event was a disaster, even the crowds didn't behave in a sensible and civil manner. Some people were even trying to scavenge from the belongings of the dead. How low is that?Codliveroilnoreply@blogger.com