The director general of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Mr. Akin Olateru has said that more revenue would accrue to the agency because of its change of name from Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB-N).
Olateru disclosed this while announcing the release of seven final accident reports which was held virtually from the NSIB headquarters in Abuja.
According to him, the agency would be getting 6 per cent from ticket sales charge (TSC) collected on behalf of other aviation agencies by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
Olateru explained that the Act establishing the NSIB increased the revenue from 3 percent to six per cent adding that it will also get 5 per cent from passenger service charge (PSC) collected by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).
“A lot of work went into the drafting of the bill before it was assented to. According to the Act, the NSIB gets six per cent of TSC and 5 per cent of PSC from FAAN. There is a percentage from railway tickets; we will find a way to balance it as the proposals are approved in the Act. You all know we do not charge for investigation and so we are a fully funded bureau,” he said.
Thereafter, Olateru said the seven serious incident final reports released on Thursday, December 29, included 20 safety recommendations, which were addressed to the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the affected airlines, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), among others.
On the whole, he said the bureau published a total of 82 aircraft accident reports and 272 safety recommendations between 2007 and 2022.
He said since he came on board, the bureau published seven reports and 30 safety recommendations between 2017 and 2022.
“The newly released reports make a total of 82 aircraft accident reports released by the bureau since its establishment in 2007 and a total of 63 reports released by the current administration from 2017 till date.
The bureau has also released a total of 272 safety recommendations since inception with 191 of the recommendations released by this administration,” he said.
Olateru said the “reports are essential to the fulfilment of the Bureau’s mandate of investigating aircraft accidents and serious incident with the aim of enhancing safety, through safety recommendations issued, thereby assuring safe skies in Nigeria and globally.”
He added that the bureau remains “committed, through improving our processes, human capacity and equipment, to fulfil our mandate effectively, purposefully and professionally.”
The reports are:
*The serious incident involving Bristow Helicopters Nigeria Ltd, Embraer 135 Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BSN which occurred at Port Harcourt military Airport (NAF BASE), Port Harcourt, on the March 9, 2020.
*The serious incident involving ATR-72 Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N- BPG owned and operated by Overland Airways limited, which occurred at Ilorin International Airport, Nigeria on November 29, 2014.
*The serious incident involving Boeing 737-300 Aircraft belonging to Air Peace Limited with nationality and registration Marks 5N-BUO which occurred at FL310 en route Enugu from Lagos on December 14, December, 2018
*The serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Port Harcourt, Nigeria on July 16, 2020.
*The serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Osubi airstrip, Warri, Nigeria on September 10, 2020.
*The serious incident involving a Dornier 328-100 aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-DOX, operated by Dornier Aviation Nigeria AIEP (DANA) Limited, which occurred at Port Harcourt military Airport on January 23, 2019.
