the aviation minister had compelled the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to purchase two BMW cars worth N255 million for her. Expectedly, the story went viral on the internet for days before the Ministry of Aviation confirmed to a national newspaper recently that the cars had been bought for the minister because her life is under real and imminent threat. The newspaper quoted Mr. Joe Obi, Special Assistant on Media to the Minister, as saying that the two armoured BMW cars were to protect his boss from "imminent threats." The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) condemns the Minister of Aviation for  the  profligacy and corrupt  use of public funds to purchase  two BMW armoured  cars. It presents the Minister as Janus, the Italian god of wine with double-faced, speaking with two mouths. The Minister of Aviation at the public hearing organised by the National Assembly over the controversial  grounding of the Rivers State Government Aircraft, had told the prying assemblymen that  she does not control  the operations of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, the same agency where she collected N255m to purchase two cars for her personal security without such amount being appropriated in the 2013 budget of the Ministry of Aviation for that purpose." ANEEJ Executive Director , Rev. David Ugolor has said. "We are shocked at the level of  provocative extravagance of  Mrs. Stella Oduah who described the two major air crashes that have occurred under her watchful eyes  recently as “inevitable acts of God.” We deplore a situation where energy and resources that ought to  have been used to secure Nigeria airspace, as being canvassed by all stakeholders is being unwittingly deployed for self service and preservation by the minister. "Nigerians are obviously worried over an emerging trend where serving Federal Government Ministers financially strangulate and unduly interfere in the smooth operations and  efficient running of agencies under their ministries. This scenario  is also playing out between the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Ministry of Petroleum resources without necessary checks by the presidency or the assembly men. It is detestable that government keeps shielding these officials as sacred cows while corruption flourishes under their nose. "Now that the wind has blown open and the rot in the aviation sector exposed, we call on the Presidency and the National Assembly  statutorily charged with oversight duties to swing into action and bring all those involved in the car scandal to justice." Ugolor demanded.. "We need to know what has become of the due process office in our country, if procurement of such an alarming level would have been authorised by an agent of government," adds Innocent Edemanrhia, ANEEJ policy Officer. "It is reprehensible that at a time university teachers are on strike for over a semester over poor funding of the Nigerian public universities, and the same government tells them that it has no money, is where one minister will spend a whooping N255m in the purchase of only two cars! It is shameful that this is happening   in a  country where unemployment and poverty is plaguing over 60 per cent of its population?"  Edemanrhia asserts. While calling for the immediate resignation or sacking of the aviation minister, ANEEJ  Policy Officer also called for a thorough probe of the sleaze in the aviation sector with a view to bringing all those involved to book.