SIX months after the ill- fated air crash of Dana Airline on June 3, 2012 which claimed the lives of 143 passengers on board the plane and 10 on the ground, families and next of Kin of 23 Dana air crash victims are yet to receive a dime of their $100,000 insurance package.
This information was made known to newsmen at a briefing on Thursday, in Lagos, by a joint team of three Law firm representing 40 of the families of the Air crash victims.
Dr Bunmi Awoyemi, Mr Aminu Aydnia and Barrister Gbenga Eguntola have filed a Mass tort Law Suit in Florida, United State of America to get justice for their clients.
The joint team is calling on President Goodluck Jonathan, Minister for Aviation and the Senate Committee on Aviation to look into, the “wicked manipulation of Dana Airline Management and its representatives and call them to order to pay their clients their require initial 30 per cent which was $30,000 and 70 percent later.
They said that what Dana Airline was doing was a direct disregard of the provision of the Civil aviation Act which clearly stated that compensation ought to have been paid within 30 days of the plane crash, regardless of any prevailing circumstances.
The Managing Partner, M.O Awoyemi and Co., Dr Bunmi Awoyeni said that out of their 40 clients, only 13 next of kin had been paid the initial $30,000, while four of them were paid $15,000 with the remaining 27 victims’ families yet to receive a dime six months after the air crash. According to Dana Airline management 80 victims families had been paid $30,000 which included two of our clients Mr Femi Sobowale and Ahmed Dukawa who were fraudulently listed by Dana Airlines, its Local and International Insurer, Prestige Assurance Plc and Pritchard insurance/Lloyd’s of London while their families were yet to be paid.
This is a fraudulent attempt To deprive the bereaved their legal entitlement he queried.
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