Absence of substantive managing director crumbles NAMA activities
The absence of substantive managing director for Nigerian Airspace Management Agency NAMA has brought the activities of the agency to a near standstill as workers complained of lack of direction for the organization.
A cross section workers who spoke to Daily Times on the activities of NAMA noted that following the raid of the agency by operators of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC and the appointment of an acting director that NAMA has been crippled.
They claimed that with an acting managing director, NAMA as a navigational aid provider in the aviation industry needed to be bubbling with activities in order to keep the airspace more safe and secured but lamented that there was a limit to the performance of the acting boss.
Daily Times further learnt that the acting managing director, could do little or nothing especially in taking key decisions on behalf of the agency.
“There are key decisions which needed to be taking on certain issues, but now he can do little or nothing. The ministry should not hesitate in appointing a substantive managing director in order to rescue NAMA from collapse. The directors can hardly do anything because of the circumstances that brought the acting MD to power” A source told our reporter.
NAMA has been engulfed in crises as a result of leadership tussle when the erstwhile managing director Nnamdi Udoh took over power from Ibrahim Auyo while did not go down well with some top management staff of the agency.
An aviation watcher and publisher of Aviation security magazine, Alhaji Abdulyekeem Umar said there was urgent need to appoint a substantive managing director for NAMA in order to ensure continuity in the system.
Abdulyekeem said there was confusion in the system as the directors does not have focus on what to do as they lacked coordination. “They should appoint another managing director now before it is too late. When somebody is acting, there is a limit to his capability. I am not sure that the other MD is coming back again because I don’t think the Federal government will descend so low to bring them back to the industry”
He advised the government to appoint a professional as the managing director that will do the job effectively and carry every worker along in decision making to avoid the mistakes of the past.
Abdulyekeem urged the federal government to avoid politics in appointing a professional as a substantive boss for NAMA and should be from the system in order to carry on with the programme on ground.
