Former General Secretary of the Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative, John Ojikutu
Former General Secretary of the Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative, John Ojikutu, has urged the House of Representatives to compel the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to contribute five per cent of its airport commercial earnings to the pool funding aviation safety agencies.
Ojikutu made the proposal in a presentation to the House Committee on Aviation and obtained by The PUNCH, in which he called for a comprehensive review of the sharing formula for the five per cent Ticket Sales Charge, Cargo Sales Charge and Chartered Flights Charge.
He argued that the existing arrangement among the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau and Nigerian Meteorological Agency was neither rational nor reflective of the different responsibilities and operational demands of the agencies.
According to him, the formula should take into account the number of personnel deployed by each agency, the volume of operational equipment, geographical spread, hours of operation and, most importantly, the safety responsibilities assigned to each institution.
