Chief executive officer Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has expressed the company’s readiness to operate direct flights to Israel.
Onyema said this when he paid a courtesy visit to Yakubu Pam, executive secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) in his office in Abuja over the weekend.
He said Air Peace desired to kick off flights from Lagos to Tel Aviv in order to ease the burden of connecting flights on intending pilgrims from Nigeria.
The NCPC boss in his response, expressed gratitude to the Ambassador for considering it imperative to pay a courtesy visit to NCPC for the first time, barely nine months since assuming office.
“We are very humble to receive you here in your capacity as one who represents the entire country of Israel in Nigeria”, he asserted, while stressing that NCPC was set up primarily to coordinate and supervise the movement of Christians to Israel and other Holy places around the world.
Pam commended the Ambassador for his zeal and doggedness in charting a way forward for Christian Pilgrimage and also applauded Onyema for his national humanitarian interventions.
Speaking, the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E Mr Michael Freeman thanked the NCPC boss for all his efforts in advancing the cause of Christian Pilgrimage in Nigeria. He expressed delight over working with the NCPC. His words,” we have a true partnership to grow together”.
