Ondo govt denies hiring crashed Associated Airline plane
Ondo State Government on Tuesday said it
was not involved in t
he hiring of Associated Airline plane, which
crashed in Lagos last Thursday while conveying the body of the late
former Governor Olusegun Agagu to Akure.
The state also said that the airline was
not on the list of airlines earlier listed and presented to the burial
committee set up by the government to organise a befitting burial for
the deceased.
These clarifications were contained in a statement by the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade.
A spokesman for the Agagu family, Femi
Agagu, had reportedly said in a statement on Monday that the family did
not hire the crashed plane.
Akinmade said the clarification became necessary in order to correct erroneous representations in media reports.
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