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By Dickson Omobola
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, said, yesterday, the status property of aerial postulation controllers mightiness beryllium reviewed to span the manpower gaps successful the country.
Keyamo, who assured that the ministry would enactment with the applicable authorities to guarantee a palmy review, said helium would collaborate with the Permanent Secretary, Dr Ibrahim Kana, to survey and get support for an upward review.
He spoke astatine the 54th Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Association, NATCA, themed: ‘The Human Edge: Capacity Building successful the Next Generation Air Traffic Management,’ successful Abuja.
According to the minister, if pilots could alert a level astatine the property of 65 years, aerial postulation controllers could besides bash the same.
He said: “I listened to his (President of NATCA) code connected the status property of aerial postulation controllers, I deliberation I americium convinced it is thing I tin instrumentality up.”
He besides noted that fixed the shortage of aerial postulation controllers crossed the country, determination was a request to span the gap.
Meanwhile, President of NATCA, Mr Amos Edino, successful his address, lamented the question of retirements and migration of skilled aerial postulation controllers, saying it was affecting performance.
According to him, existent projections bespeak that if measures were not taken to span the gap, the aerial postulation controller workforce could decline, reducing the manpower spread by up to 70 per cent by 2030.
Edino, however, called for the upward reappraisal of the status property for aerial postulation controllers to 65 years to guarantee continuity.
He said: “For implicit 3 decades, aerial postulation controllers crossed the globe person been faced with persistent manpower shortages, a situation that continues to interaction the efficiency, information and sustainability of aerial navigation services.
“In Nigeria, this interest has been further compounded by a question of retirements, the migration of skilled professionals overseas and inter-agency transfers driven by the hunt for amended opportunities.
“Current projections bespeak that if decisive measures are not taken, by 2030, contempt the expected maturation successful nationalist aviation activities, the Air postulation controller workforce could diminution sharply, perchance widening the manpower spread by up to 70 per cent.
“This is truthful a telephone to enactment for the reappraisal and upward accommodation of the status property for aerial postulation controllers to 65 years, aligning with different captious professions. Such a argumentation displacement volition assistance clasp invaluable expertise, guarantee operational continuity, and fortify information oversight wrong Nigeria’s airspace system.”
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