Politics
FG makes good its plan to overhaul NCAA, sacks all directors
Federal government’s promise to overhaul the operations of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) was made manifest Friday with the immediate sack of all directors in the service of the organization.
The sack letters were administered on 10 directors namely, Alhaji Salawu Ozigi (Director of Finance and Accounts), Dr Joyce Nkemakolam (Director of Aerodrome and Airspace Standards), Mr Aba Ejembi (Director of Administration) and Mr Emmanuel Ogunbami (Director of Licensing), Mr Benedict Adeyileka (Director of Airworthiness), Mr Justus Wariya (Director of Air Transport Regulation), Alhaji Adamu Abdullahi (Director of Consumer Protection), Capt. Ayodele Sasegbon (Director of General Aviation), and Mr Austin-Amadi Ifeanyi (Director of Human Resources).
All affected directors were directed to handover to their immediate subordinates.
Sam Adurogboye, General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA, confirmed the development, saying “It is true that the directors have been disengaged but I don’t have details of the reasons given for the action by the ministry.”
Read also: FG to float N20bn green bond in March, first in Africa
A pointer to Federal Government’s action emerged in October, 2016 with the demotion and termination of the appointment of some 22 directors and general managers at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).
After the October exercise, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had promised that the ensuing restructuring programme would be extended to NCAA and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).
It is not certain if Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s visit to Murtala Mohammed International Airport on Wednesday served as trigger for the mass sack of NCAA directors.
Ripples Nigeria gathered that the sack exercise had the consent of the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.
RipplesNigeria ….without borders, without fears
Click here to download the Ripples Nigeria App for latest updates
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...