Naira Marley Lashes Airline: 20,000 ‘Marlians’ Won’t Travel On Your Useless Airline Again

After flagrantly going against the lockdown restrictions by the Federal Government, highly controversial musician Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley, has retorted at the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jets Services Limited, Sam Iwuajoku, for calling his musical crew “a bunch of useless people.”

The Crest had earlier reported that the airline had been suspended and faced sanctions by the Federal Government for flying the artiste to Abuja for a concert, contravening the social distancing guideline.

Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation had announced the suspension on Monday, during a Presidential Task Force press briefing in Abuja.

To ameliorate the public disgrace, the Chairman of the airline wrote a letter of apology to the minister, detailing the oversight of the aircraft’s passengers.

In the letter dated June 15, 2020, Iwuajoku said he gave approval for the flight thinking it was the Minister of Works, Babatunda Fashola who was onboard.

The letter read in part, “Please the flight was to carry a judge to Abuja on Sunday, 14th, June 2020 as requested and the permit was granted based on the application but unfortunately, when I called the Judge on Saturday morning to inform him that we have the permit, he then said he has reached Abuja already with a different flight that someone gave him a lift to Abuja.

“So, on Saturday morning, 13th June 2020, my staff called me that they have a charter flight to Abuja, and that the passengers are already in the lounge. As a rule, passenger manifests are always sent to me before departure.

“When I went through the manifest and saw FASHOLA BABATUNDE, I thought it was the Honourable Minister of Works going to Abuja with his men. So, we decided to do the flight since he is a serving minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I didn’t know that it was a bunch of useless people.”

After social media outrage on the flouting of the restrictions, Naira Marley reacted on Twitter, “Do you know that over 20,000 Marlians travel with executive jets a month? We won’t be using your useless airline again for calling us useless.

“Thank God we didn’t crash on that flight because we nearly did.”

Naira Marley also revealed that there was indeed a passenger on the flight who answers the name Babatunde Fashola, who Marley says is his younger brother.

“They asked for our names on the jet. My name is Azeez Adeshina Fashola and my little brother’s name is Moshood Babatunde Fashola,” he said.