A top level technical team of the Agency for Aerial
Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) led by its Director
General, Mr Amadou Guitteye, has held crucial deliberations with officials of
the Nigerian Airspace Managing Agency (NAMA), along with CEOs of other aviation
agencies in Lagos on issues bordering on harmonious collaboration and
partnership with Nigeria, aimed at further enhancing safety and seamlessness in
airspace coordination within the AFI region.
According to a statement signed Mrs. Olajumoke Adetona,
the Acting General Manager Public Affairs of
NAMA, Mr Guitteye stated that
their visit to Nigeria was pursuant to the Cotonou declaration of 2010 which
harped on “the need for African ANSPs to move to a single African sky through
close collaboration, coordination and partnership that would bring about a
standardized, harmonized, seamless and interoperable CNS/ATM systems within
intra and adjacent FIRs.”
The ASECNA boss
noted that with the impending sectorization of Accra FIR which hitherto
included Benin and Togo airspaces, soon to be taken over by ASECNA, there was
the need to review letters of procedures with Nigeria, as the closest neighbour
to ASECNA in the region. Amadou also
solicited collaboration in the area of cross-border search and rescue and
training of critical manpower.
the Managing Director of NAMA, Engr. Ibrahim Abdulsalam
noted that an inter-FIR collaboration with ASECNA who are all-round neighbours
to Nigeria is a welcome development as it would be of mutual benefit to both
parties and “we look forward to a very fruitful collaboration and cooperation
between Nigeria and ASECNA countries.’’
The ASECNA delegation which inspected facilities include
the Control Tower, Equipment Room, VSAT Earth Station, Instrument Landing
Systems, Localizers as well as the TRACON centre.
Speaking after the facility tour, the ASECNA DG described
the facilities as excellent. ‘’We are very impressed about what we have seen today.
From the navigational aids to the TRACON centre, we learnt a lot and it has
given us more confidence in the ability of NAMA to guarantee safety of air
navigation in the region. We also discovered from our interaction that Nigeria
has very capable technical manpower managing these infrastructure and we shall
continue to exchange ideas and technologies, all targeted at enhancing air
safety on the continent of Africa.’’
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