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And then, during the Nigerian civil war, I was within the Biafra region and in the village. I lived in Calabar and then we moved to the village. First, we moved to Oron and then to the village. And the jet fighters would come and bomb, when they come, we will scamper to hide. That was a very humiliating experience. I said to myself, one day I’m going to be a fighter pilot. Nobody is going to be pushing me around anymore, I’m going to be the one in control of the situation.
So, I wrote to the Ministry of Transport that I wanted to be a pilot because that suited my ambition, with my experience in the war. And also the financial reward was better than anything else.There are some things that drive us. We want to seem to control things, to be in charge. You know adrenaline starts pumping and you get this feeling of power, you are put in charge of this airplane, you think you know how it flies.
PT: Some people think the ADC airlines’ licence was withdrawn after the 29 October 2006 crash near Abuja while others think it was about recapitalisation, that the airline was unable to recapitalise?: I had left the airline like 10 years before then. So I may not be able to speak directly. But after that, they did come back and they flew for a while. I left in 1998. The first one was in 1996. I was the CEO in 1996. I left in 1998.
When I left Nigeria Airways, for instance, I did not go into commercial aviation straight away. I was in the training arm of aviation. In fact, what does ADC stand for? ADC stands for Aviation Development Company. But a precursor to the Aviation Development Company was the Air Crew Development Centre. I used the Air Crew Development Centre, it was registered, to do some training. I train pilots, I run a flying club. I had a flying club in Kirikiri, Lagos. We went to Magbon.
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