Najomo Assures NCAA Workers of Promotion, Training

The acting Director General, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Chris Najomo has promised the agency workers of promotion, training, retraining and fair policies in the management of the authority.

He gave the assurance when the organisation opened the new year with prayer at the Lagos office of the agency.

Najomo urged the workers to show more dedication to their duties, improve their productivity to effectively reposition the NCAA and the Nigeria aviation industry in its rightful place as a leader on the African continent.

To achieve this, he said: “ In this new year, training and retraining will be of utmost priority to enable staff to discharge their responsibilities with the required competency.

“As we all know, one of the integral commitments and cardinal policy thrust of NCAA is training and retraining of staff. I make bold to say that we have a huge task ahead of us. Being the industry regulator comes with huge responsibility. I therefore, implore all staff to put their best foot forward.”

Represented by the Director, Operations, Licensing and Training Standards, Capt. Donald Spiff, he also charged on punctuality saying that, all staff are expected to be at work at 8am-4pm except for staff who run shift duty. 

He noted that, while taking cognisance of the high cost of fuel and transportation, the management team would map out modalities to ameliorate this situation.

On the issues of staff promotion and concerns on paucity of vacancies and openings on grade levels 15-17, the Ag. DGCA agreed this had led to stagnation in the system but assured efforts are on to create openings as realistically as possible.

“There are complaints of alleged lack of fairness/equity in handling promotion and disciplinary matters. I wish to assure you that these matters will be handled decisively, effective from this year. My pledge staff will be my firmness, fairness and equity in handling staff matters,” he said.