NAMA Regularises Casual Workers

The Managing Director of the Nigeria
Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Nnamdi Udoh says his administration has
regularised the appointment of casual workers in the agency.

Udoh who disclosed this while speaking with
newsmen said the casualisation was a source of worry in time past for the
agency, adding that the management had also been able to foster industrial
harmony since it was appointed six months ago.

“The key thing we have achieved is very
stable industrial relations. There was acrimony, there was bitterness due to
the fact that many people were aggrieved, but I decided to make it open and
also to take a decision to make it open and also to take a decisive action by
ending casualisation in NAMA.

So, there is nothing like casualisation any
more. There is no outstanding promotion and all scheduled training are on
course, all outstanding staff claims are addressed and above all if you look
around, there are major infrastructural changes that are coming on”.

He said the actions were based on personal
conviction, managerial support and ministerial directive, adding “why create an
unhealthy working environment with people who have worked with you for five
years and you pay them N5,000 a month and so on”.

“The minister wants workers to be part of
the transformation and like I said, transformation is all about the renewal of
mind. She directed that we should transform the people to what they ought to be
that is why we have engaged our casuals that have worked with us for many
years.

On other achievements recorded by the
agency he said, “NAMA has published our Performance Based Navigation (PBN), we
have published the date for our aerial control and of course that would lead us
to our own narrow route making it seamless to fly on our airspace. It increases
safety and you cannot even say you have category one as achieved by NCAA if the
airspace has issues. These have all happened in the last six months”.