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| Dr Harold Demuren |
Engineer Harold Demuren is the Director General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority NCAA, he has been in the news in recent time base on the crashes that
engulfed Nigeria aviation
industry. In this Interview with some Nigeria Journalists in Israel, he gave a
sight of relieve in the sector and express optimism that those calling for his
sack will soon know the truth. Alarinka was there . Excerpt.
Year 2012 is a turbulent year for the airline passengers what should
people expect this year
We pray that the Lord
our lord Jesus Christ gives us perfect safety in the coming years and this is very
crucial because unless the Lord build
the house we labour in vain and unless
the lord build the city there is nothing we can do it is God that gives perfect safety he uses us as an instrument to give our travelling public safe aviation accident free in Nigeria and that is our prayer
Sir, are we expecting new things in term of safety regulation from your
industry in the year 2013
Sure, you know
after any crash what bother people
is the cause of the incident, people speculate and give series of lies, we are bringing new
equipment on board on aircraft automated
flight information reporting system, if anything happen in the air,
automatically it will be recorded on data base on hours it would alert if there
is any problem and it will save the data base
on hours, so whether the aircraft
is functioning or not you can see the
data and the good thing is that this data can easily be animated and you will
see it in real life what occur and how it happened so that there will be no
speculation, so that you can know the truth, learn from it and correct
against next time.
How safe is aviation in Nigeria
Aviation is very safe
in Nigeria, it is very unfortunate that
we have that tragic incident, but before
that happen since 2006 till about
June 2011 we have carried about
50 million airline passenger, we have operated
one million flight without any crash and suddenly that happened, our
prayers and our thought goes to the family of the crash and
those in the Military helicopter
and we pray that God will grant
all of us, safety, peace and joy in 2011.
Some people are calling for you
resignation or sacked, what is your message for them
They are politicians we are professional we are doing our
work, the truth will come out and when the truth come our it will set everybody
free
