Use other people’s money to expand airport — Skelton Cline

Political commentator and former government consultant Claude Skelton Cline has insisted that government should not use its own money to complete the planned airport extension project.

He argued that successive and future governments have and will have no monies to build the airport so financing should be sought elsewhere.

“You don’t spend your own money to go build no airport. You don’t go borrow no $200 million to go build no airport. Governments are not in the airport business,” Skelton Cline said on his Honestly Speaking radio programme this week.

He said the airport project needs to finally go out for a request for proposals to ‘finance, design, build, and operate’.

“Use other peoples’ money to develop that airport,“ Skelton Cline urged. “Make some concessions that will benefit and bless and advance your country on behalf of your people.”

Meanwhile, the talk show host lambasted plans to engage in further consultancy regarding the airport.