The Managing Director of Naebi Dynamic Concepts Limited, Mr. Stanley Chike has called on the Federal government to sanction and enforce a ‘no flight permit’ to operators owing landing levies despite being issued a notice.
Chike said this in Port Harcourt during a familiarisation visit to his office and the inauguration of the second batch of trainees of helicopter monitoring officers by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who was represented by the Director of Human Resources, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Norris Anozie.
The managing director noted that his firm was given the responsibility of tackling security challenges within the navigational airways as well as revenue loss within the subsector.
In tackling the challenges, he said, the federal government through the ministry of Aviation mandated Naebi Dynamic Concepts Limited to be in receivership of helicopter landing levies according to section 7(1) (b), (i), and (r) of the NAMA Act 1999, from all oil fields, terminals, platforms, Riggs, FPSO, helipad, Airstrips, and aerodromes.
Chike noted that some directives already issued by the Managing Director, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to its staff to synergies with his firm staff in enforcement will yield results.
He, however, expressed optimism that the minister will use this visit to attend to the peculiar request by directing relevant agencies to enforce a ‘no flight permit’ to operators who haven’t complied with the payments of landing levies.
Speaking at the inauguration, Chike said some of the officers inaugurated would be sent abroad for specialised training as part of measures to digitalise the sector.
He said the firm has trained 200 helicopter monitoring officers in the first batch with all necessary certifications, while 150 persons have already been deployed to various locations.
Chike added that another 300 are being trained in order to drive the President’s dream for the aviation sector so as to increase employment for the Nigerian youths.
He said: “The federal government is using this to create about 500 jobs and even more. Indigenous people of the different local communities are being trained and deployed.
“We hope to achieve our dream of digitalising the sub-sector by identifying special talents among them who will in turn be sent overseas for specialized training.”
He further hinted that the firm’s control room would be ready by June this year.
“We have put in place our call centre and have contracted the equipment of our control room to a British firm, and it will be completed by June. Upon completion, they will remain for another period of six months to further train our I.C.T experts for effective delivery”, Chike said.