Aviation Professionals Warn Of Impending Plane Crashes

Article Abstract

• Aviation professionals in Nigeria have raised issues concerning the competence of just lately appointed people in key positions, warning of potential air crashes.
• The Skilled Meteorologists Affiliation of Nigeria and the Affiliation of Nigeria Aviation Professionals claimed that the appointees lack the {qualifications} and talents to handle their roles successfully.
• The teams alleged that the appointments are an try to sabotage the incoming authorities and specific issues about mismanagement of funds and fraudulent contract scams inside the Nigerian Meteorological Company.

Barely 24 hours after the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, introduced some main appointments within the sector’s key businesses, some aviation professionals have raised an alarm of doable, impending air crashes.

Two skilled our bodies within the Nigerian Meteorological Company (Nimet)- the Skilled Meteorologists Affiliation of Nigeria (PMAN) and the Affiliation of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP) – claimed that the majority of people who have been appointed into key positions by Sirika have been incompetent.

The warning

A joint assertion issued by the associations, as seen by Nairametrics, additional warned that this might spell doom for the sector.

The 2 our bodies particularly alleged that the appointment of Daniel Okafor and Charles Anosike to the positions of Director of Climate Forecasting and Utilized Meteorological Providers, respectively, might have an effect on the latest security loved within the sector.

Their issues

They claimed that the newly appointed people lacked the wherewithal to handle the important thing positions they’ve been appointed.

They insisted that the appointment of the 2 males by Sirika confirmed that the previous minister lacked the capability and mental means to understand the sciences of meteorology. They harassed that the “two appointments to those important directorates depict that very quickly, planes would begin falling off from the sky.”

The teams went additional to say that the appointment of the 2 males was an try to sabotage the incoming authorities within the business. The group mentioned: 

• “From the meteorology professionals and the union, we recognise that this singular try is to sabotage the incoming authorities to fail within the aviation sector.
• “The 2 newly appointed administrators shouldn’t have the minimal qualification of meteorology to deal with the workplace. They don’t qualify to be on Degree 8 within the meteorological cadre.
• “After a latest assembly by important professionals within the company, they’ve determined to take this malfunction appointment to the incoming administration on the looming disaster within the aviation sector. Additionally, the skilled meteorologists have equally knowledgeable the union within the sector on a Save Our Soul (SOS) sign on this appointment.” 

What you need to know

The meteorologists within the letter, rejected the appointments of the 2 and threatened to embark on a nationwide protest to press dwelling their demand.

The teams alleged that Okafor, for example, was engaged in contract scams for Sirika, sustaining that he was introduced into the system by the minister and put within the important security division of Nimet, even with out the requisite expertise.

Additionally they accused the Nimet administration of giving out ambiguous and sham contracts to the cronies of the minister, alleging that the company was misappropriating funds and legitimising impunity and fraudulent contract scams.

They alleged that Sirika lowered Nimet to an arm of his non-public firm with all sense of impunity and violating public service.

Additionally they accused the Director-Normal of Nimet of being the conduit pipe for Sirika within the final eight years and appealed to the subsequent administration to critically look into the actions within the company to forestall it from complete collapse.

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