ByAs part of its efforts at bringing about efficiency and accountability to its network of airports, the management of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) will soon begin to implement a policy that will decentralize essential operation and staff welfare issue from the Headquarters to each of the airports.
This was made known by the Managing Director of FAAN, Capt Rabiu Yadudu during an interactive section he had with Aviation Journalists at Lagos Airport.
Yadudu who paid a courtesy visit on members of League of Aviation and Airport Correspondents (LAAC) at their Secretariat located along Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos link road, said the headquarters of FAAN needed to be less burdened with many issues which could be handled at regional or local level of affected airports.
“We intend to decentralise essential operations and also the management of FAAN.
“A lot of things are concentrated around the headquarters and you cannot be macro-managing from the headquarters all other airports.
The headquarters will be doing a lot… We will be decentralising and each airport will be responsible for itself, but we will monitor and do surveillance of the facilities,” Yadudu said.
The Chief Executive Officer of FAAN who affirmed that the process would begin by the middle of this month said the Management of FAAN has spent the last two years planning while the Key Performance Indexes (IPKs) have been developed.
“I think in the next two weeks, we will start it. We have used the last two years doing the planning and now, we have developed the Key Performance Indexes (KPIs).”
He said the new policy would help to promptly identify and address laxity at any of the airports.
“About 90 or 100 items are in all these. With this, the issue of laxity in the system can be checkmated. This will make us to know those who are messing it up and we won’t wait till the end of the year before we take an action,” Yadudu said. .
Apart from essential operation, the CEO of FAAN added that staff welfare would be decentralize to ensure accountability.
According to him: “Even, the welfare of our staff, we will decentralise it and the managers are responsible. We will also ensure accountability. If your manager is messing up, it is easier for you to know. Also, we have started the scholarship exercise for all our staff and the best five students in each of the five regions will get the scholarship and FAAN will make sure we fund their university education.
“The decentralization shows the management is not ready to hold on to power. Like I said earlier, we are working on the local runway. What is the essence of having two runways if we cannot use them? I believe if not for the cables he brought, we will have installed it in March.”
A very good inovation, hope’s it’s works well, if they staff didn’t abused it’s. May HE grant your teammates more blessings and WISDOM to get it’s on like yesterday. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALWAYS.