MD, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)
To effectively meet its core obligation of providing air navigation service within Nigerian airspace, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has begun exploring some strategies to shore up its revenue base.
Some of the strategies being considered include improvement on the frequency of stakeholder engagement especially on matters relating to service delivery; media enlightenment of customers through various platforms; provision of incentives for prompt payment by customers; improvement on the agency’s e-payment platform, including deployment of Point of Sales (POS) in all revenue payment points nationwide and maintaining constant liaison with the regulator and stakeholders in matters relating to the review of charges. This was disclosed to African Business Travel News (ABTN) on Monday evening in a statement made available through the office of its General Manager, Public Affairs, Emele Khalid.
The move according to NAMA Managing Director, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu became necessary because of the rising commitments of the agency to upgrade navigational infrastructure, enhance air traffic management services, building staff capacity as well as other personnel costs.
The Revenue Mobilization Committee (RMC) earlier setup up by the agency has come up with the recommendations after it sat between February and April 2018.
Capt. Akinkuotu who made these remarks while receiving the report of the RMC, said management would carefully study the report with a view to implementing relevant aspects of it, however stressed that “an improvement in the revenue profile of the agency would translate to a more robust NAMA, discharging its functions in a more efficient manner.”
The NAMA Chief Executive Officer however enjoined staff “to be more prudent and avoid wastages in order to make this dream realizable.”
It would be recalled that in the quest to improve its revenue generating capacity, the agency recently inaugurated the RMC with a core term of reference to extensively deliberate on the agency’s statutory revenue sources and develop strategies for more effective ways of generation and collection.
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