Dr. Harold Demuren, a former Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, has stated that Nigeria is due for the improvement of aircraft maintenance facility.
He noted that Nigeria had missed extremely large resources of maintaining its aircraft overseas. For example, he said, besides the economic loss, Nigerian experience aircraft engineers could not secure jobs locally.
According to him, about 40 per cent of money used on the reconstructing of airport facilities in the last few years was expanded for that purpose by government, it would have been priceless for the growth of aviation in the country.
He also made a yelled statement at the Nigerian Aviation Conference in Lagos, suggesting that if Nigeria must take its place as the West African center in aviation, it must have its aircraft maintenance facility.
The Managing Director, Toucan Aviation Support Services, Achuzie Ezenagu, called on the Federal Government to focus on the growth of the aviation sector as a catalyst for economic growth.
However, Ezenagu suggest that the establishment of the facility would save the country’s large financial resources, help to train and handle native aircraft engineers, make aircraft profitable for airlines and strengthen Nigeria as the main point in West Africa.
He also noticed that the development of an MRO could be demanding and expensive because Nigeria had no foundation to promote it.
In finalizing this, MRO is very expensive to establish in Nigeria because of the heavy burden from government, but this can be settled.
