The statement OPEN GAMBIA (OG) received from a former GIA employee who is now employed by NIRO provided a plausible reason explaining how the influential backers (corrupt civil servants) used their leverage to impact negatively on GIA, making them lose nearly 40% market share at an accelerated pace against NIRO even though GIA has the competitive edge based GIA developed over two decades of training and operating with staff capacity, expertise and experience in the aviation industry compare to NIRO that are newcomers into the industry.

The NIRO Whistleblower came out with the revelations to confirm the OG narrative of our past article on the NIRO company getting support from embedded corrupt civil servants who are using undue influence as leverage to undermine GIA for their selfish interest in advancing their private company NIRO to take over the entire aviation support service operation at the Banjul International Airport (BIA).

The NIRO employee Insider further revealed that the NIRO Company strategy is continuing to undermine GIA with support from their backers and to headhunt principal staff from GIA, attracting them with better incentives, banking on the other GIA staff resigning to join NIRO for better pay and fewer benefits. The anticipated outcome is to eventually bankrupt GIA, which leaves them with complete control of the operation at BIA.

The insider said some have already regretted joining NIRO because they have become conscious of what the company represented.

Please read the details below from the NIRO whistleblower:

Indeed, NIRO has been mandated to initiate conversations to become the National carrier of the Gambia. The truth is GIA’s services are to be taken over, and if possible, GIA should be elbowed out. With the help of the strategies and plans stolen from their strategic plan and the backing of the top civil servants, NIRO will kill the national company, establish a national carrier and also take over airport management after GCAA decouple its management and regulatory functions of the airport.

In this article, email threads prove this. The GCAA and government know this, but they don’t care! Because NIRO stakeholders’ interests must be protected at all costs. That is why GIA was not consulted from the beginning.

NIRO cannot handle ground but is banking on poaching the GIA and Air Rep Services staff to beef up their team. Aviation training is very costly, so instead of employing fresh people with no experience, the plan is to lure the staff of these companies into joining NIRO and then fully compete with GIA’s skilled and experienced workforce.

Chief of Staff Mod K. Ceesay and Ousainou Ngum were on GIA’s board. Ousainou Ngum served as the Board Chairman before the present Chairman. Both Ousainou and Mod are critical in the NIRO’s “KABUDU” because they have had first-hand access to GIA’s business strategies and sustainability plan, which NIRO is now using to take business away from GIA.

Furthermore, there’s another case of conflict of interest because Ousainou Ngum is also the Chairman of the State Owned Enterprise Committee, which will monitor and rate GIA on their Performance Contract KPI. He sat as a board member of NIRO after leaving the position of Board Chairman at the GIA.

Mod Ceesay, a silent shareholder, and Ousainou Ngum, now a NIRO board member, have made all GIA plans available to NIRO. Ethiopian Airlines’ intention to establish a national carrier was supposed to be executed by GIA, and communication had begun along that line. But with the help of these corrupt top civil servants, this was hijacked by NIRO.

Thanks to the likes of Trade Minister Baboucar Joof, Civil Service Minister Baboucarr Bouy, Vice President Mohamed Jallow, Director General GCAA Fansu Bojang, Francis Mendy of Brussels Airlines (Whose story will also be featured later), Fatou Lamin Faye and their Ethiopian money launderer (Who we will ultimately disclose too).

This competition that the government have exposed GIA to is not a fair one.

We are not writing these articles to assassinate anybody’s character but to shed light on the injustice and unfair play that a few top people are doing. These shellfish and ungrateful ingrates will sink this country for their own interest. It is not that GIA is incompetent, nor do they lack the ability to handle traffic capacity at Banjul International Airport, but rather, it is a few selfish individuals who are killing our national assets to protect their interests.

We want the public to know the truth and nothing but the truth. Does a public company like GIA deserve this wicked and unfair treatment? Are GIA’s workers, not Gambians? Why destroy the source of income of these poor Gambians and the National interest to satisfy your selfish interests and those of your children alone?

More revelations are coming…

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