The ministry
official, who is the Director of Public Relations and Protocol, Dama NPD, said the N13million loan
request made to the Acting Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was to enable the Minister lead a delegation of other five
officials of the ministry to cover the
ticket, hotels and other logistics to attend the United Nations World Tourism Organisation conference in conjunction with the Government of the People's Republic of China, under the overall theme «Tourism for Peace and Development.»
The Sun - Times article goes on to state that tour bus company
officials would not respond to the
request for comment, and that court records show the driver was
ticketed approximate 20 times for traffic violations between 1988 and 2008.