HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WARNS STAKEHOLDERS IN AIRSPACE INDUSTRIES ON SAFETY STANDARDS 03-11-23
By Sadiq Aminu The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation Technology has warned critical stakeholders in Airspace industries against tendencies that might jeopardize the safety standard across the country.
The Chairman of the committee Mr Thomas Eriyetomi, gave the warning during an interactive session with the Management staff of the Federal College of Aviation Technology Zaria.
Mr Eriyetomi assured the readiness of the committee to ensure effective oversight responsibility of all Nigerian Airspace and the aviation sector at large.
He observed that delaying students of the college in a course that should have been for two years programme for three years and above should be discouraged stressing that such inability to meet up should be blamed not on the students but on the college and it lecturers.
During the meeting, the Rector of the College, Capt. Modibbo Alkali had informed the lawmakers that their major challenge is funding.
He explained that some government agencies such as National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA are owing even as they continuously trained and retrain their workforce across the country.
While responding to questions from the Chairman of the committee on what the college is doing to absolve graduating students, he explained that though their training times take longer than usual as graduating students from the college are doing extremely well, the institution strictly abides by the federal character principle.
The Rector added that the college has existed in the country for 59 years saying that some factors usually cause delay in students graduation which includes bad weather condition.