
The President ACI Africa, Saleh Dunoma says Nigeria is in the forefront of striving to attain the highest levels of safety standards.
He said this is being pursued vigorously with the investment in human capacity develop and collaboration with international organizations like ACI and the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO in the training of its staff to ensure safe, secure and efficiently managed airports.
Dunoma noted that, “Over the years, ACI Africa had focused on safety as a priority leading to the initiation of the world wide acknowledged Airport Excellence (APEX) in safety programme. This has recorded great achievements as major airports continue to requests for this programme”.
According to him, with the assistance of the APEX in safety programme, “we were able to achieve the certification of our 2 busiest airports.
Our goal is to certify all our international airports and we are working tirelessly to achieve that, hence we have taken the bold step to carry out the APEX in safety programmes in our international airports.
The APEX review for Kano and Port were carried out in March while reviews for Enugu and Kaduna airports are scheduled for June this year”.
He stressed that the evolving nature of airport management demanded a transformation of” airports who now mostly serve as public service providers and not commercial enterprises that are efficiently managed to generate more revenues and subsequently declare profits.
Dunoma commended ACI for its assistance over the years,”FAAN’s relationship with ACI Africa spans over a decade and it has been a worthwhile and mutually benefitting relationship. I am proud to say that the same mutually benefitting relationship ‘ is enjoyed by other members of ACI Africa”.