Yemisi Izuora
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) Capt. Fola Akinkuotu has tasked workers in the agency to come up with procedures, processes and innovations that would correct all the existing imperfections in the revenue collection system of the agency in order to boost its revenue base.
Capt. Akinkuotu who gave this charge in his opening remarks at the 2017 Commercial Department Officers’ Retreat which held in Lagos said as a department saddled with the responsibility of actualizing the economic objective of the agency, it behoves the staff to operate a transparent platform whereby all the agency’s earnings are clearly harvested through proper issuance of invoices for settlement of charges, stressing that the realization of the budget estimates by the agency can only be actualized through diligent processing of returns by personnel of Commercial Department.
Earlier in her welcome address, the General Manager, Commercial, Mrs Joy Umeh said the retreat was to create a forum for learning where all staff would be equipped with latest trends in handling complex issues relating to revenue collection. Umeh also expressed optimism that grey areas relating to the job will be resolved as participants used the platform to share their experiences, compare notes and come up with more efficient ways of harnessing the agency’s resources.
With participants drawn from 26 stations across the country, the three-day Annual Commercial Department Officers’ Retreat with the theme: Revenue Generation-A Veritable Tool for Financing Air Navigation Services featured power-point presentations, lectures and a report on the progress made so far by NAMA in the implementation of Federal Government Executive Orders.