Aviation sector gets boost with pledge of support by National Assembly

NIGERIA’S AVIATION SECTOR HAS RE CEIVED A BOOST WITH THE PROMISE OF SUPPORT by legislators in the National Assembly, including working with the executive arm of government to lift the country’s aviation sector to achieve global best practises.

This was the submission of the joint committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on Aviation during an oversight visit to the Accident Investigation Bureau, (AIB) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) in Lagos recently.

The leaders of the committees on aviation in both chambers of the National Assembly, Smart Adeyemi, a senator, and Nnolim Nnaji, member, House of Representatives, promised to continually engage the Ministry of Aviation and the aviation agencies to ensure that the success achieved so far was sustained.

The National Assembly members who inspected facilities of the two agencies in Lagos on Thursday were impressed with the progress that have been made in the sector in the last couple of years and stressed that, “as legislators we will continue to collaborate with the ministry and the agencies to give our people the best reliable aviation industry,” they said.

They commended the two chief executives for their display of knowledge, skill and mastery of the industry describing them as square pegs in square holes.

The Senate and House Committees’ leaderships equally frowned at the increasing problems of flight delays and cancellations across the country stressing that the developments were taking tolls on businesses.

The two chairmen declared that, “situations where Nigerian travellers are constantly subjected to constant long waits at the airports on account of flight delays and cancellations will no longer be tolerated.”

They both disclosed that the committees of both chambers have resolved to invite the chief executives of the relevant aviation agencies and the airlines to discuss the way out of the mess.

“We need to know what the problems really are and see how to get out of them. All you keep hearing is that the flights are delayed due to operational reasons. We want to know what those reasons are,” they declared.