Air Peace Airline boss, Allen Onyema has cried out.

“I plead with the Federal Government to talk to Customs Service to try and feel the pulse of the president of this country and his regime.”

“The customs knows very well that waivers have been signed into law, yet I have an aircraft on ground for over one month, an aircraft I pay over one million dollars of insurance whether it flies or not.”

“I pay over N490million with a staff strength of over 3,000 people, yet our spare parts and engines will come into this country and customs had withheld them and giving us all manner of bills to pay.”

“If not for the intervention of the Minister of Aviation last week, all the airlines in the country would have shut down. Where does that leave this economy of this country? Air Peace in particular had an engine which should be cleared in one day but has taken over one month to clear.”

“In the neighboring republic of Benin, it takes 48 hours to clear goods. The engine involved was removed from here and taken back to the manufacturers to rectify something but it has stayed for one month with customs. This is not a new import.”

“The Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, talked about customs in this country yesterday and about facilitating business. The customs of Nigeria are not above the law.”