NAAPE Challenges Orji Kalu To Show Proof Of Drug Use By Pilots

The National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) has challenged Abia North Senator, Orji Uzor Kalu, to instantly substantiate his claims that immoderate pilots successful Nigeria fume Indian hemp and run craft portion nether the power of drugs with verifiable grounds oregon retreat the statement.

NAAPE, successful a connection by its nationalist relations officer, Engr. Blessing Ahmadu, urged the erstwhile Abia State politician to contiguous his grounds to the due statutory authorities agencies – the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), oregon contented an unreserved nationalist withdrawal and apology to the nation’s aviators.

The connection further noted that, “NAAPE categorically and emphatically refutes the wide allegation that Nigerian pilots routinely alert nether the power of narcotics. These baseless claims, which represent a malicious onslaught connected the professionalism, integrity, and estimation of Nigerian aviation professionals, are not lone mendacious but correspond a unsafe misrepresentation of the rigorous information standards that govern Nigerian aviation operations.”

The relation besides noted that arsenic the nonrecreational assemblage representing each licensed pilots and craft engineers successful Nigeria, NAAPE considers information arsenic the foremost precedence successful each aspects of aviation practice, noting that “Every aviator successful the state is bound by strict regulatory, medical, and ethical standards established by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, successful enactment with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) requirements. These standards prohibit the usage of immoderate psychoactive substances and taxable pilots to regular and random cause and intoxicant investigating arsenic portion of their aesculapian certification and recurrent appraisal processes. We besides explicit our assurance successful the information oversight functions of the NCAA and its leadership, whose accordant enforcement of planetary champion practices continues to uphold the integrity of the Nigerian aviation system.”

Describing the allegations arsenic not true, NAAPE portion shedding much airy connected the operations of the aviator and aircraft, said “It is inaccurate and misleading to suggest that pilots routinely prosecute successful cause usage oregon study to work nether the power of specified substances. Aviation operations successful Nigeria impact aggregate layers of oversight, including pre-flight aesculapian checks, recurrent simulator training, random toxicology screening, and continuous monitoring by some operators and regulators. The proposition that craft are being flown by intoxicated pilots undermines nationalist assurance and the hard-earned integrity of Nigerian aviation professionals.”

NAAPE further noted that Nigeria’s aerial transport assemblage remains 1 of the safest successful Africa, a grounds sustained done strict adherence to planetary information standards and continuous nonrecreational improvement and noted that immoderate isolated lawsuit of misconduct by an individual, if established, is swiftly met with disciplinary and regulatory actions by the applicable authorities.

Also, portion speaking connected behalf of the association, Captain Bunmi Gindeh, President of NAAPE, stated:
“It is unacceptable to marque unsubstantiated claims against a assemblage of professionals. The load of impervious lies with whoever makes specified an allegation, and it indispensable beryllium supported by grounds oregon withdrawn with a nationalist apology. Everyone appears to talk arsenic an aviation adept successful this state but the professionals who are trained and certified to bash the job. For excessively long, individuals extracurricular the manufacture person attempted to specify its operations, and 1 would person expected a erstwhile hose relation to recognize this better. Sadly, this is not the case.

“Our members acquisition immoderate of the astir rigorous medical, psychological, and nonrecreational screening anyplace successful the world. To broadly generalise and suggest that Nigerian pilots run craft portion nether the power of drugs is not lone mendacious but profoundly unfair to the thousands of disciplined professionals who dedicate their lives to ensuring harmless skies. We instrumentality large pridefulness successful our information grounds and stay committed to maintaining the highest standards of professionalism.”