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ACI 2018: Dunoma challenges African airport managers on security, safety

 

From L-R, Gilles Darriau, Cote D’ Ivoire, Ali Tounsi, Secretary ACI Africa, Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World, Pape Mael Diop, ADS, Senegal, Papadiery Sene, ACI Africa Treasurer, Engr.Saleh Dunoma, President, ACI Africa, Hassan Orozi Ahmat, Representative of Director General, ASEGNA and Mme Nadia, Morocco during the Executive Committee members meeting at the ongoing 27th Annual General Assembly and Regional Conference and Exhibition with the Theme “Challenges of Safety & Security in African Airport, Issues & Perspective taking place in Abidjan, Cote D’ Ivoire

As security becomes a vital challenge in airports operations worldwide, Airports Council International (ACI) Africa President, Engr Saleh Dunoma has called on African Airport managers to develop programmes and initiatives that would help curb or eliminate security and safety challenges at airports.

Engineer Dunoma stated this while delivering the opening speech to participants at the 27th ACI Africa Board and Regional Committee Meetings, Conference and Exhibition with the Theme “Challenges of Safety and Security in African Airports taking place in Abidjan, Cote D’ Ivoire.
The FAAN boss who maintained that safety and security in today’s aviation cannot be overemphasized  said, “Safety and Security are paramount in today’s aviation industry and thus their importance cannot be over emphasised. ”
“ACI Africa working on behalf and for African Airports has focused on these important topics over the years to ensure that safety and security becomes our watch word in Africa.”
Dunoma continued,”ACI is keeping up with the pace of new emeritus threats by developing proactive programmes and solutions to safety and security issues at African Airports.
He noted that the regional body was dedicating funds to improve security via training and technology to assist member states.
He said, “Each year, there is a dedicated annual budget geared towards improving safety and security by providing training and assistance to member airports.
The strategy is aimed at empowering member airports by training security and safety experts who will I turn perform peer reviews at no cost to airport members.”
He also stated that, following the ACI African Airports Development Programmes, a lot of successes has been recorded.
Another ACI Initiative is the APEX in Safety and Security programmes, which are airports peer review based on ICAO regulations and ACI best practices
On safety, Engr.Dunoma said that, based on the IATA 2017 Airline Safety performance release, Sub-Sahara Africa has continued to make strong progress on safety.
“Sub-Saharan Africa has continued to make strong progress on safety. Airlines in the region had zero jet hull losses and zero fatal accidents involving jets or turboprops for a second consecutive year. Both the turboprop hull loss rate and the all accident rates declined against the average of the previous five years”.

 

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