Coalition Backs Kalu On Drug Tests For Pilots

The Coalition of Nigerian Youth Leaders (CONYL), which represents younker groups from crossed the country’s six geopolitical zones, has supported Senator Orji Uzor Kalu’s caller telephone for a mandatory cause test  for commercialized hose pilots successful Nigeria.

In a property connection signed by its president-general, Comrade Goodluck Ibem, on with different enforcement members, CONYL described Senator Kalu’s comments connected the Senate level arsenic “bold, indispensable and rooted successful lived manufacture experience,” adding that aviation information is acold excessively captious to beryllium near to chance.

The property merchandise was jointly signed by CONYL executives including Comrade Adeyemo Adewale (Publicity Secretary), Comrade Junaid Abubakar (Secretary General), and Comrade Iniobong Sampson (PRO).

Senator Kalu, himself a cardinal subordinate successful the aviation assemblage and an hose operator, had earlier raised alarm implicit the increasing interest of pilots operating flights portion nether the power of hard drugs. Citing a circumstantial incidental wherever a aviator overshot the runway and aboriginal tested affirmative for cause use, the legislator warned of the perchance disastrous consequences of lax oversight successful the sector.

Reacting to his intervention, CONYL stated, “We commend Senator Kalu for bringing this contented to light. This is not specified speculation. There are existent cases — including 1 wherever cause usage by a aviator resulted successful a runway overshoot. We cannot spend different specified hazard successful our airspace.”

The conjugation called connected the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to instantly fortify its aesculapian and regulatory frameworks by instituting regular, mandatory, and random cause tests for each pilots operating wrong Nigerian airspace.

“Pilots clasp the lives of hundreds successful their hands each azygous day,” the connection read. “Rigorous and regular aesculapian testing, peculiarly for substance use, should beryllium non-negotiable. The NCAA indispensable urgently reappraisal and upgrade its compliance protocols.”

In a further recommendation, the conjugation urged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to collaborate straight with aviation authorities by deploying aesculapian and enforcement teams to assistance successful the investigating and monitoring process.

“NDLEA’s engagement would bring successful a much-needed furniture of credibility and expertise. This is not conscionable astir aviation regulation—it’s a nationalist wellness and nationalist information issue,” the radical added.

CONYL emphasised that the lives of passengers and unit members are astatine involvement each clip an unfit aviator enters the cockpit, stressing that immoderate hold successful enforcing strict aesculapian standards could effect successful preventable tragedies.

“It is our corporate work to guarantee that lone sober, sound, and medically acceptable individuals are allowed to fly. The authorities indispensable enactment decisively—lives beryllium connected it,” the connection concluded.