Stories by Ime Akpan Lagos–
Th e managing director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Capt. Fola Akinkuotu has tasked the organisation’s employees to embrace digital technology saying the recent federal government’s executive orders on the ease of doing business in the country demands that businesses transactions should be carried out on e-basis”, Speaking in Lagos at NAMA’s Accountants Retreat held in Lagos recently, the managing director of the agency, Capt.
Fola Akinkuotu said the agency had taken steps to entrench a more eff ective automated accounting system that would meet the growing demands of the organisation.
He said retreat was borne out of the agency’s commitment towards promoting transparency, accountability and fi scal discipline in the system, stressing that it had become imperative to reposition NAMA and its business transactions to comply with the dynamic world of technology, especially as it aff ects the aviation sector.
“Th e recently issued Federal Government Executive Orders on the ease of doing business in the country demands that we carry out our business transactions on an e-basis.
Management will support the fi nance department in its quest for the best available technology that would meet industry best practices and also enhance effi ciency in service delivery.
While allaying the fears that automation of business transactions would lead to job losses, Akinkuotu was confi dence that the interactive nature of the retreat would give staff the opportunity to use their professional expertise to brainstorm on possible challenges in the system and also devise new initiatives of fi nding solutions targeted at improving the agency’s procedures using the benefi t of e-business.
Earlier in his remarks, the director of fi nance and accounts, Mr.
Aniefi ok Umoh called for the cooperation of staff as the agency transits from the “manual system of preparing fi nancial and management information reports to automated processes” granted that “everything in our environment is going electronic.
” “If it is not e-learning, it is e-commerce.
If not e-business, then it is e-transaction and NAMA cannot aff ord to be left behind,” he said.
