NCAA clears Bayelsa Airport for flight operations

AFTER months of expectation, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has cleared the Bayelsa State-owned airport to commence commercial flight operations.

The NCAA Director General, Captain Nuhu Musa, presented the approval letter to the Bayelsa State Governor,  Douye Diri at the Government House, Yenagoa, after the NCAA team completed the mandatory inspection of the airport and its facilities.

The NCAA DG  said the airport met all air safety standards therefore declaring the airport to be one hundred per cent ready for daytime flight operations.

The approval was sequel to the report of the regulatory body’s inspection team, which had certified that out of 29 gaps, the airport had successfully closed 26 with the remaining described as non-safety related while efforts have reached high stage to make the airport achieve night flight operations.

The NCAA DG commended the state government for the quality of work done at the airport and the capable personnel from the state that facilitated the issuing of the licence.

Reacting, Governor Diri while appreciating God, described the issuing of the operational license as  a windy journey that began from the administration of his immediate predecessor to when he assumed office over a year ago.

Diri said: “This is a dream come true for our state and our people. I thank God Almighty because this journey had been a winding one from my immediate past predecessor and I have been in the saddle for over a year waiting for this licence. Today, God made it possible.

“I also thank my predecessor, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson. This airport had been on the drawing board, but he took the bull by the horns by starting the airport and virtually completed it. May I on behalf of this government and the people of Bayelsa appreciate him.

He used the opportunity to commend  the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, the NCAA DG and other officials for the approval and promised to do all it takes to get full flight operations.

He averred that all the necessary facilities and equipment were in place and would be installed in no distant time, especially all the runway lighting system, he emphasized the importance of an airport particularly in the South-South region as the centre of oil and gas activities in the country.

“Bayelsa State is a major contributor to the oil and gas business in Nigeria. Bayelsa is the centre not only of oil and gas but also other economic activities within the South-South and the South-East.

“So, the Bayelsa airport is critical not only to Bayelsans but indeed the people of the South-South,  South-East and by extension the nearby countries. We are at the border with the Gulf of Guinea,” he said.

 

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