Let's see now.
I run a loss making business employing friends and family in high positions, not based on any competence to do the job, but purely because of who they are.
My business has been losing money for years but a generous benefactor keeps supplying more money so that I can employ more incompetent people as the losses increase.
I need new equipment and I appoint a friend to go to the suppliers who will give him the biggest kickback which he will of course split with the rest of us. The suitability for purpose of the equipment supplied under this contract is not questioned. Nor is the fact that the equipment I already have does not need replacing.
My losses increase and the benefactor coughs up more money. Ad infinitum.
Disclaimer : Any similarity with any airline or political party in sub-Saharan Africa or anywhere else is purely coincidental.