Keyamo at the opening of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Management Retreat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday, said, "I will not take the fall for another man's incompetence.”
Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Aviation has expressed confidence in the recently appointed aviation agency management teams but reiterated his zero tolerance for incompetence.
Keyamo at the opening of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Management Retreat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday, said, "I will not take the fall for another man's incompetence.”
In his opening remarks at the event, the Director General of NCAA, Capt. Chris Najomo, said that a performance bond must be signed by the directors as he also signed such a bond with the aviation minister.
A new set of aviation directors was announced in December 2023 and inducted by the minister not long after.
The NCAA Port Harcourt retreat is the first among aviation agencies and is a sequel to the minister's induction of the team a month ago.
In January, Hadiza Bala Usman, Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination and Head, Central Delivery and Coordination Unit, said President Bola Tinubu would sack ministers who failed to deliver on their mandates.
Noting the seriousness that the president attached to delivering on his promises, Usman said, “We must understand that the president is very serious about his promises and that ministers will be assessed, and ministers will be dropped if they don’t perform."
She spoke at the opening of the technical retreat for delivery desk officers of federal ministries on the implementation of presidential priorities and ministerial deliverables in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.
“You must understand that as ministerial delivery desk officers, you are the engine room," she said, adding that they were expected to provide "feedback and constantly track ministerial progress and report challenges and bottlenecks to the central coordinating and delivery unit (CDCU)."
According to her, “we will be assessing FAAN (Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria) on customer experience at the airports; are the escalators, lifts, and conveyor belts functional? How swift is security clearance both for passengers and vehicles in accessing the airport?
“What are the consequences of delayed time of departure for airlines? These are things that everybody can feel and see. When we are talking about agriculture, we want to see our index of fertilizer use per hectare grow in view of the attendant investment that has been made in fertilizer interventions.”