Nigeria Assures Stakeholders Of Safe Airspace
The
Nigerian government has assured aviation
stakeholders of safe airspace in all the nations’
airports.
Minister of Aviation,
Babatunde Omotoba gave this assurance while speaking
at a Nigerian Airspace Stakeholders Forum" in Lagos
organised by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
(NCAA)
According to him, "The Federal Government will
continue to facilitate and ensure safe airspace and
compliance. We would do everything to achieve zero
accident level."
He said that the Federal Government would do
everything possible to facilitate the provision of
facilities that would bring about safe and zero
accident in the country's airspace.
The forum, he said, was a technical team and
stakeholder’s session meant to deliberate and detect
the problems associated with the Nigerian airspace.
He said Nigeria was not against constructive
criticism, as long as it would ginger people to
improve their level of performance.
The Minister expressed disappointment that African
countries were lagging behind in the implementation
of safety standards, recommended by the
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). He
called on stakeholders in the continent to work with
one another to ensure total safety of the
continent's airspace.
In his remarks, Deputy Regional Director, of the
ICAO for Western and Central Africa, Mam Sait Jallow,
said ICAO's Chicago Convention was primarily on the
safety oversight activities requiring member states
and service providers to assume proper
implementation of international standards in their
territory.
Challenges
The ICAO scribe said that the major challenges
facing most ICAO contracting states was the
implementation of the ICAO safety standards, adding
that ICAO had shifted its focus from the development
of standards and recommended practices to their full
implementation.
Newspaper /Qasim/ Funke