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By Emman Ovuakporie
Mr Emmanuel Elisha Anthony in a chat with TNG Discovery recently in Abuja narrated how he painstakingly designed a helicopter which was tested at the Nigerian Airforce base in Kaduna.
The 39years old Anthony who hails from Benue and a product of Kaura Namoda Polytechnic in Zamfara state had the opportunity of accessing Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who made contacts with President Muhammadu Buhari on offering scholarship in an aviation college in Florida.
Hear him:
I am Anthony Emmanuel Egu from Oju local government of Benue state. I am into aero designs. I built a live helicopter in Kaduna and I launched it at the airforce base. I was given a recommendation letter from the Nigerian airforce base and also from the federal ministry for aviation and transportation.
While I was looking for sponsorship to further my study in an institution in Florida in US, I came across with the vice president through the pastor of my church and the VP was so happy for the innovation and he said even his excellency will love such creative ideas which will boost the nation economically, commercially and military wise. So I was slated for a sponsorship from him which I still believe God to perfect.
Among the entire aviation design helicopter is the toughest even in piloting. I had to study the dragonfly, the dynamics of movement, I can stand for like 30minutes studying it. I studied mechanical engineering in the polytechnic so I had to implement my knowledge from there to build the helicopter.
I was given a scholarship from the federal government, through the office of the vice president then it was through the SSA Mr. Edobor. So he told me that the VP was very impressed and that this is something that Nigeria will have to support, that the VP has said he would give you the sponsorship to go and study.
So when I called he said his excellency said he will give you part of it not all. So I said whatever it is when I get to the US I have designs which I want to implement. I have a design of an air fighter, of an air ambulance and also a design of a drone which is in the form of wasp.
The conventional drone has a long wingspan but mine is different. Mine can be used for the military in the sense that it can go ahead of the infantry of our platoons, it scouts the ground for any mines which I have to introduce to those who go into bomb detectors, to scan metals or chemicals on the ground ahead of the soldiers as they are advancing.
Many soldiers are dying on a daily basis. When you send the helicopter, the terrorist will hear the sound of the helicopter and they will know a counter-attack is around and they will dodge. For a drone, you can be in Maiduguri town and launch my drone, it will go there, it has a camera, it can scan infrared, human heat and can tell you this is where the movement can be contained, it can filter voices and translate it.
In my design the way the fan moves, you hardly hear the sound, I have been able to cushion the sound such that it will move and come down very low.
The conventional drone only moves horizontally round, mine can suspend itself and bring itself down; the US drone have it because I made a research on the available drones.
For my drone, the propellers are inbuilt such that it can dodge a bullet, it can be armed to fight and bring back report, so we will have fewer casualties of our men.
So I tried to reach Mr Edobor but he said there is nothing he can do, the then SA to the VP. When I waited, they called me from Lagos, the VP should have attended to you but I said no I have not been attended to. So when I met my pastor he happens to know the ADC to the president Col. Abubakar and he explained everything.
So the Colonel now called the ADC to the VP, Edobor said he shouldn’t mention my issue and he said why. So he said he will meet the VP and he met the VP and the VP said he has already approved the money for long, he even expected me to come and say sir, I am grateful for what you did for me, I am proceeding for studies but that he didn’t hear anything about me. So he felt it was one of those things that when you help youth to achieve their dream they forget about you and I said to me I am not like that.
The ADC told him nothing has been done. So the VP invited Edobor, he came and said the money has not been released. The ADC now said can I see the documents when it has stopped so that he can use his influence as the ADC to push it, Edobor said no and started turning the ADC up and down for like over a month, so the ADC had to take the issue up with the president.
Even the president’s nephew was even involved, they allocated scholarship for him and also for me, that the two funds were given to Editor.
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