Victims of the Dana Air disaster in Lagos seeking compensation were disappointed this morning when a Lagos High Court ruled that investigation into the 3 June, 2012 air crash was inconclusive and as such cannot apportion any blame.
The presiding magistrate, Mr Alexander Komolafe, however, gave a nine-point recommendation to prevent future occurrence.
In his ruling, Komolafe, who noted that the Accident and Investigation Bureau, AIB, did not conclude investigation into the crash to ascertain the actual cause, recommended the following in his judgement: establishment of a national body for logistic and supply handlers and retrievers to handle emergency; establishment of forensic science laboratories in each political zone in the country; enactment of national coroner act through an act of parliament; public sensitization programmes; and provision of fiire service station in every local government.
Other recommendations are: provision of equipment to all emergency agents; distribution of radio units to all the emergency agents; establishment of national and state cooperation for emergency and the establishment of inter-state agency for cooperation for emergency.
Meanwhile, exactly two years after a Dana Air plane crashed in Lagos, western Nigeria, killing over 160 people, many relatives are yet to be compensated even as the airline acquires more planes and flies more passengers, P.M.NEWS can reveal.
Dana Flight 992 crashed on 3 June 2012 in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos only minutes to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport that Sunday afternoon.
The crash, one of the worst in the Nigerian aviation history, triggered outrage and grief, and calls for the government to reform the sector and pay more attention to safety.
But two years on, relatives claim that as many as one-third of them are yet to fully be compensated while others have not even received any compensation.
Sam Ogbogoro, Dana Head of Corporate Communications, claimed that virtually everyone has been compensated but did not know how many.
He told our correspondent on the phone that he would need to contact the insurance company.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, says relatives are entitled to $100,000 for every lost person.
Parents, children, friends, widows and widowers of the departed were expected to throng the crash site to pay respects and remember their beloved ones.
They would lay wreaths and console one another.
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