Presidents of all professional associations in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) have described the one year in office by the current managing director, Engr Umar Farouk as a year full of massive transformation in the agency.
Speaking in separate interviews on the assessment of Engineer Farouk’s style of administration, the presidents noted that workers of the agency can heave a sigh of relief as their.voices now count under the leadership of Farouk.
For the President of the Aeronautical Information Management Association of Nigeria (AIMAN), Dr Ibrahim Audu, the recent achievement of the ISO 9001of 2015 certification of NAMA was one of the great things that had ever happened to the agency with tremendous significant in the industry.
According to Audu, the certification shows how acceptable the quality of products offered and the high level of professionalism in NAMA even as he acknowledged how the MD as an engineer has followed strictly the ICAO standards in order to raise the bar in the agency.
According to Audu, within one year, Farouk has been able to implement the agency’s approved Condition of Service, trained and retrained a lot of professionals and other staff of the agency.
“In terns of international courses, the Managing Director did not leave any stone unturned in ensuring that every professional staff in the agency is well trained and he is achieving that.
“Today, every worker is happy, receiving arrears from the condition of service as their morales have been boosted by the Managing Director of NAMA”.
He noted that staff welfare had never been toyed with as it remained paramount in the administration of the NAMA boss.
Also speaking on the achievement of Farouk, the President of National Association of Air Traffic Engineers (NAAE) Engineer Selzing Miri, commended the NAMA boss for the manner and way the issue of workers welfare is being handled.
Miri scored the NAMA MD high in the area of training, expressing optimism that NAMA will be an enviable organisation to the world should the MD continue the way he has piloted the affairs of the organisation.
Miri however lamented the enormous burden the revenue deduction by the federal government has on NAMA.even as he expressed hope that when given adequate fund, the NAMA boss will excel judging by what he achieved in one year.
On his part, the president of National Association of Air Traffic Communicators of Nigeria (NACAN), Alhaji Mohammed Sani, said in the one year of Farouk, that there has been no tension, or.in house fighting between unions and the agency as he has brought every one together to foster unity and development
Sani, said the welfare of workers has been improved upon as workers were happy with the management as they were being carried along without discrimination, noting that relationships with the unions have improved.
According to Sani, for the first time in the history of NAMA, three courses for communication department are going on in the college of Aviation in Zaria.
He commended the Farouk led team for encouraging local and international trainings even with the little resources available
