Aviation Ministry Secures N4.045billion for AIB to Acquire Office, Web Base Equipment
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Accident Investigation Bureau Lagos office already pulled down.
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, at this week’s meeting presided by President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved a total sum of N4,045,197,340 billion for the Aviation Ministry to help acquire for the use of Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, a highbrow property in Abuja, that will serve as office accommodation and a laboratory.
According to the statement by the Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, part of the approved sum would also be used for the procurement of specialized equipment to aid the AIB to perform its job with the use of 21st-century technology to be hosted in Canada.
The Information Minister announced that “the council approved a memo from the Honorable Minister of Aviation for the award of contract for the establishment and deployment of Advanced Report Generation Utility Engine, web-based reporting tools in favour of Messers Sinecon Limited in the total sum of N553, 575, 000, inclusive of 7.5% with a delivery period of 12 months”. This technology will aid the Accident Investigation Bureau to be able to establish and develop the advanced reports generation system”.
Lai Mohammed explained that the web-based Advanced Reporting Generation Utility Engine, “has tremendous benefits to both authorities and recipients of the information. It will be hosted on a common database, which reduces the agency’s cost of production, and provides technical means for users to search across agencies of government to communicate findings of accident investigations in a modern web-based format, as opposed to the current traditional written format published on the web”.
Speaking further on the benefits according to the brief from the Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, Information Minister said, “the web reporting tool will motivate investigators overtime to create more visual contents that will have an integrated option to develop 3D flight animation to communicate the history of flights that will be hosted on plane sciences services in Ottawa, Canada”.
The Information Minister also made public the second approved memo by FEC was the sum of N3,491,622,340 to enable the Ministry of Aviation to purchase a choice property at Plot 426, Cadastral Zone, opposite the Corporate Affairs Commission.
Lai Mohammed said of the decision that, “this property will enable the ministry to be in the same building with many of its agencies. As of now, many of the agencies operate from rented properties and this is a drain on the government apart from the fact that it does not allow for good coordination of activities”.
On the genuineness of the property, as regards its status with the Federal Capital Territory Administration nay its technical and physical fitness, the Information Minister affirmed that “necessary checks and legal searches have been made and the council approved the purchase.”
This measure may have put paid to the hues and cries about the erstwhile AIB Lagos office ignominiously pulled down by the government for its error in the construction of the second international terminal at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, without consideration for safe maneuvering of aircraft at the taxiway and the apron for parking.
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