NAMA ready to harmonise staff salaries

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has put in place a mechanism to look into the lingering issue of discrepancies in the salaries and allowances of staff under its payroll with those of their colleagues in other sister agencies in the sector.

The Managing Director of the agency, Captain Fola Akinkuotu who revealed this in a town hall meeting held at the agency’s headquarters annex in Lagos, said although the issue of harmonisation was as old as the agency itself, there was the need to revisit it as a resolution that would boost staff morale and also increase productivity in the long run.

As a first step towards achieving harmonisation, Akinkuotu said management had constituted a committee headed by the Director of Safety Electronics and Engineering Services, Farouk Umar with “the mandate to look in-depth at the circumstance of harmonisation, cost of harmonisation, our ability to achieve harmonisation, the validity of whether we have been harmonised or not, and then make a report and present to the management.”

According to Akinkuotu, the committee had already submitted the said report, assuring that management would immediately convene a meeting to “review the report in its totality and examine whether or not there is a disparity. We will also discuss if we can pay for it and if not, how do we move this forward.”