Reps Reject NCAA’s Demand for N130 Million Security Allocation

The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, has rejected the request by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to spend N130million in carrying out security audit of all airports in the country. It was dismissed during the budget defence of agencies under the aviation sector.

The committee was also displeased at the NCAA’s tradition of spending 98 per cent of its budgetary allocation on recurrent expenditure, with two per cent set aside for capital projects.

Rep. Nkeirukà Onyejeocha (Abia-PDP), the Chairman of the Committee, recalled querying the same items put at N135million in 2015 budget, based on reasons bothering on redundancy of most airports in the country.

They frowned at the unspent N16 billion accumulated security levy, lying idle at NCAA.

Onyejeocha, however, instructed NCAA to re-adjust some of the sub-heads in the budget and get back as soon as possible for final legislative work

Mr Mukhtar Usman, the Director General of NCAA, informed the lawmakers that the agency strictly operated within its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and gets no funding from the Federal Government.