Key players fault aviation stakeholders’ forum meeting

Stakeholders in the country’s aviation sector have faulted the recent aviation stakeholders meeting held in Abuja describing the gathering as a jamboree.

The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika had hosted a one-day stakeholders’ forum to address grey areas surrounding the failure of the Nigeria Air project initiated by the Federal Government, through his ministry.

According to the National Secretary of  the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), Comrade Abdulrasaq Saidu, there was nothing new that the minister discussed with stakeholders at the meeting even as  he urged the minister to tackle the major critical problems facing the industry.

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While stating that ANAP decided to shun the meeting as a result of lack of focus by the minister towards finding the lasting solutions to the myriad of  challenges confronting the aviation sector, Saidu declared that the aviation industry had remained stagnant by taking  one step forward and two steps backwards just as he added that the sector was yearning for the infrastructure development rather than commissioning of terminal building.

Urging the minister to address the issue of the Abuja control tower which has been blocked with  the construction of the Chinese terminal, Saidu cited the state of fire service personnel which he said has remained  an eyesore while the campaign of carrying arms by aviation security personnel  had become a political gimmick.

According to the ANAP scribe, there have not been any development in the aviation sector in the past three years, condemning what he termed the non  transparent way of recruitment of the personnel into aviation agencies by the minister.