An aviation expert has
attributed the absence of a Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facilities
(MRO) in the country to the reason Nigeria cannot design and manufacture
commercial aircraft capable of conveying one hundred passengers and
above in the next decade. This was made known in a paper presented at a
seminar in Lagos by Dr Titus Olaniyi, a special resource person at the
Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria.
Presenting the paper
entitled: The imperative of building a sustainable aircraft maintenance
hangar in Nigeria, Olaniyi declared that it would not be feasible to
achieve that feat of aircraft designing and manufacturing in the country
in the next 10 years but declared that the country’s aviation must
begin to sustainably operate, maintain and assemble in the progressive
order.
According to Dr Olaniyi,
the MRO facility in Uyo was a viable step in the right direction to
achieve such feat, adding that once it was completed, the facility would
become a national hangar that could accommodate two B747 – 400 or six
B737 in a closed air conditioned space.
This, he said, would
require the services of technically capable human resources that would
provide high quality maintenance services needed, stressing that the MRO
in Uyo should consider collaboration first with Original Equipment
Manufacturers (OEMs) and later with third party suppliers in order to
strategically upgrade the facility to an assembly plant and later
collaborate with manufacturers.
Olaniyi called for the
imitation of planning and policy frame work inclusive of its
implementation strategies that would encourage the establishment of MRO
for protecting the Nigerian aviation industry and its workforces.
He noted that the current
Nigeria aviation policy required a paradigm shift, adding that its
current format opened doors uncontrollably to foreign operators at the
expense of the indigenous market.
According to Dr Olaniyi,
this is a result of the inadequate negotiation skills, suspicious or
gross malicious of people conducting Bilateral Agreement on behalf of
Nigeria.
- Source: http://www.tribune.com.ng
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