NCAT secures its land from grabbers
| The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology(NCAT) Zaria is leaving no stone un turned to secure and safeguard the land of the institution that has been recovered. Towards this end,it is building perimeter fence and also deploying armed and unarmed security personnel patrolling the area to keep people away from coming back to restart construction of building or farming in the area. Rector and Chief Executive Officer of the College,Capt.Alkali Moddibo stated this while fielding questions from aviation journalists who were on one week training programme at NCAT. “This college is about 58 years old and the college was here before the illegal occupants became the residents of that area and the land allocated to the college is mapped. Now, if you encroach on a land, the government has the right to take it back” .” For those who want to go to the court or are already in the court, it is left for the court to decide on the issue. We have some cases brought to us, which we have forwarded to the Ministry of Aviation. The Ministry has a legal department that is in charge of taking court cases against it or its agencies to the right places.” “NCAT will not be the legal department that will be attending the court cases, but, we will be there as observers and give some advises and information whenever they are required. So, the matter is going to court, we will not say so much about it. We leave the court to decide.” Speaking on the upgrade of NCAT into Regional Training Centre of Excellence(RTCE) and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority(NCAA) approval as Training Organisation(ATO),said the benefits of this certification is that we can increase training activities like the international Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) training courses, conventional courses in the college. “In 2021, we had over 50 courses conducted in this college in spite of the Cocid-19 pandemic and we are still doing those courses. That will give us more visibility internationally and locally by having the RTCE. You cannot train if you don’t have the renewer of the ATO. So, these are the benefits of the RTCE and ATO.” . Reeling out some of the unique features of the recently acquired fire simulator equipment,Moddibo said the equipment is an automated firefighting simulator, which gives room for simulating incident and accident activities that require fire. “The firefighting simulator is undergoing process of certification; we are in stage two of the process and NCAA is responsible for issuing certification for the equipment and it cannot give you the certificate until you are through with all the processes, which we are working hard on to get. As soon as the second phase is completed, the machine would be put to use.” Looking ahead 2022”,we are going to try as much as possible to conduct more training locally and internationally and we intend to get the certification of the automatic rescue firefighting training provider certificate from the NCAA” “. Also, we are working on the B737 equipment certification. It is taking us longer than we intended, but we will trying all our best to ensure that by March this year or April, we will have the B737 simulator equipment and put it to use.”. He said no man is an Island. Partnership is our second name, we will always partner with organisations in order to move forward. “ International African Association for Approved Training Organisations (AAATO), we are a full member of that association and other international associations. Also, we partner with all the agencies under the ministry, military, paramilitary organisations and others, we partner with them and we also send our people to these organisations to be trained on some of their technologies”. “Even, with the airlines, we work hand in hand; we as a training institution, we cannot be on our own. Every airline and organization that has anything to do with aviation, they come here and get trained. We also send out people out to get more knowledge and information” |
