For one whole year, they have struggled in vain. Families and friends of the departed in the ill-fated Dana flight 992 that crashed into the densely populated Iju-Ishaga neighbourhood of Lagos State have continued to cry out.
Those who lost loved ones and valuable property to the Dana air crash of Sunday, June 3, 2012 have spent the last twelve months agonising and today they will remember again the sad memories of how their loved ones died in the ill-fated aircraft. But such memories will be more bitter this year as the compensation due to many of them have been denied them.
All the rubble on the crash site has since been cleared and the entire environment fenced to protect whatever the government plans to put in memory of the horrid accident.
Since the sad event that claimed the entire 153 persons on
board and some 10 residents in the neighbourhood where the flight crashed, quite a number of the families of those that perished have not been compensated.
As stipulated by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Act, following the crash, Dana Air was expected to pay the sum of $100,000 each to the victims who lost their lives starting with the initial payment of $30,000 of the total sum, while $70,000 was meant to paid after full verification. However, the airline seems to be more interested in how to get its aircraft back into the air rather than pay compensation to the victims.
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