By Ime Akpan
Lagos
The Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Mr. Emmanuel Anasi has underscored the need for the agency’s business to be carried out in an orderly fashion and in accordance with public service rules.
Speaking yesterday in Lagos when the Director of Studies at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Mrs. Meg Oshionebo, paid him a courtesy call at the NAMA headquarters.
Anasi said NAMA had concluded arrangements with ASCON to train various categories of personnel in the agency.
“We believe that ASCON has both the capacity and expertise to give us the needed training required to drive the agency towards increased productivity as well as excellence in service delivery,” said Anasi.
He said that the training “aims at inculcating in the workforce the basic principles and procedures of carrying out their functions, including sanctions to those who breach these rules.”
Earlier in her speech, Oshionebo had said that NAMA as an air navigation service provider “needs to align its administrative processes and procedures properly with its mandate in order to ensure efficiency in service delivery.”
The training which will focus largely on administrative processes, procedures and practices is intended to treat modules such as Strategic Management, Public Service Rules and Regulations, Financial Rules and Regulations, Tax Obligations and Liabilities, Policy Formulation and Analysis, Budgeting in Public Sector, Due Process and Procurement in Public Service, Improving Service Delivery in the Public Sector among others.
