Recession: NCAA out with four safetyy valves

As the As economic recesssion bites harder in Nigeria with paucity of foreign exchange, scarcity of aviation fuel and inability of foreign airlines to repatriate funds, management of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has come out with a four point agenda that would ensure improved safety and economic well being of the air transport sub sector of the economy in 2017.
Unveiling the four point agenda on Monday at a media briefing to review the previous year and acquaint industry stakeholders with the directions for 2017, Director General of NCAA, Capt Mukhta Usman said, “the new year would be approach with four point agenda which include:
Sustaining Zero accident in the aviation industry with increase in safety through wider and more regulations, stringent enforcement and application of appropriate sanctions
Review and strengthening of economic regulations through much more and far reaching ; airlines operational books would be sighted with increased regularity.
The third on the agenda, according to Mukhta is improved consumer protection. this he argued would be pursed with better motivation of the workers in the directorate with additional visibility in the airports. He added that the consumer protection workers would be made to work with security agencies to stem passengers rage in airports across the country.
in conclusion, the NCAA boss posited that continous training of its workers is part of the agenda which would remain a key project of NCAA. He said every member of staff in NCAA must be trained either at home or abroad as the need arises.
Earlier the Chief regulation officer in the Nigerian civil aviation industry had rolled statistics on the industry performance stating that a total of 11,402,899 passengers were ferried in Nigerian airspace on 233,845 flights in 2015 while a total of 11,3344936 passengers were ferried on 163,844 flights in 2016.
According to him total tickets sold between January and December 2015 was N330,909,897, 028. 08 while a sum of
N330, 548,324,796.84 was realised from the same source between January and October of 201’6.