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NAMA To Ground Debtor Foreign Airlines
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has warned foreign airlines that the agency would ground any of them that are owing the Agency as from January.
The chairman of the Airspace regulatory body, Alhaji Abubakar Boraje who stated this at the Executive Management Retreat in Lagos, said the Agency is aggressively pursuing the idea of shoring up its internally generated revenue.
He warned that no efforts would be spared at recovering the agency’s money from the foreign airlines indebted to it.
The chairman said the Agency would not bother domestic airlines operators over the debt but vowed to ground foreign airlines that refused to settle its debts by December, 31 2009.
Alhaji Baraje said when the on-going Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON) is completed in January, any aircraft that overfly its airspace would be detained, adding that the Agency will not only arrest such aircrafts but detain them for not paying over flier charges.
He disclosed that the Agency had secured the services of a consultant that would help in fashioning out ways to help the Agency drive its debt recovering process and also initiate means of improving its internally generated revenue; adding that the board will go into dialogue with local airlines that are indebted to it with a view to recovering debts that are owed.
Baraje said the consultant would be called in to look into IGR of the organisation and advise NAMA on the way forward adding that the consultant will commence work during the Christmas period.
He also assured that the new NAMA would work collectively to ensure that the goals the organisation had set for its self is achieved.
Meanwhile, the Managing Director, Alhaji Ibrahim Anyo has urged management team to let all hands be on deck to put the organisation and the sector on a sound footing.
NAMA, he said had the potentials to be one of the best airspace management agencies to the world, stressing that the management’s optimism stem from the fact that it has the personel and equipment to achieve this goal.
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