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Nigeria begins aeronautical services audit to avert losing W’African hub
To avoid what looks like Nigeria’s loss of its West African hub, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has complied with the Federal Government’s directive that all aeronautical services in the country be audited.
The agency has set up a committee to immediately review all the nation’s Aeronautical Information Procedure (AIP) in the past 10 years.
The exercise is also aimed at avoiding a repeat of the neglect suffered by the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, leading to its proposed six-week closure for repair of its facilities, said a ministerial official.
According to a statement by Captain, Fola Akinkuotu, NAMA Managing Director, “this review intends to capture facilities that have been upgraded at the airports, among them being fire cover, lighting systems, aerodrome layout, airfield lighting facilities, navigational facilities and visual aids.”
Some of the safety critical information to be captured in the review will include landing and takeoff distance available, runway end safety area (RESA), flight approach procedure for all airports, state weather minima for all airports and aerodrome characteristics.
The review committee, to be headed by the General Manager, Safety Management Systems/Quality Assurance, Mr Mathew Lawrence Pwajok, will also revisit all claims by previous managements of the agency for having put enough resources in the Nigeria airspace.
It will also collaborate with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), towards sustaining a full successful certification of Nigerian international airports by ICAO in its next visit by mid of 2017.
Apparently worried that the country may lose its West African hub to neighbouring Ghana, the Federal Government had in November 2017 carried out a total overhaul of all its aviation agencies with appointment of new helmsmen for MAMA, FAAN and NCAA and also reducing their workforce by 35 per cent.
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