Keyamo Requires Implementation of Single African Air Transport Market
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement, Festus Keyamo has known as on the Banjul Accord Group of States to expedite motion in actualising a Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM).
Keyamo made the disclosure in Abuja on Monday on the 18th Opening Plenary of the Banjul Accord Group.
He expressed that the implementation of the SAATM has been sluggish in delivering the specified outcomes of deepening connectivity in Africa.
SAATM is among the tasks of the African Union to create a single marketplace for air transport in Africa.
As of final 12 months, 38 out of 55 nations in Africa have signed up for the SAATM established in January 2018 as a platform to liberalise air transportation in Africa and enhance aviation contribution to the gross home product (GDP) of African nations.
Keyamo stated, “There’s an pressing have to implement the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) for the good thing about our sub-region and the whole African continent. As everyone knows, SAATM represents a daring and visionary step towards reaching the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and unlocking the immense potential of air connectivity throughout our continent.
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“You’ll agree with me that regardless of our sturdy political will and quite a few declarations, progress has been sluggish, and fragmentation stays a barrier to our regional integration.
“It’s believed that SAATM will improve intra-African connections and make motion of passengers and cargo clean with minimal transit factors at aggressive costs.
“Attaining these requires our collective resolve not solely to implement SAATM, but in addition to make acutely aware efforts to handle the problems of non-physical limitations together with the excessive value of journey throughout the area.”
He nonetheless known as on member States “To maneuver past commitments and take coordinated, deliberate steps towards making SAATM a dwelling actuality.”
Additionally talking, the Director Normal, Civil Aviation (DGCA), Capt. Chris Najomo famous that the group continues to function a beacon of sub-regional cooperation in guaranteeing a protected, safe, environment friendly, and environmentally accountable air transport sector in keeping with the “No Nation Left Behind” initiative by ICAO.
He added that “Nigeria, being a driving power within the sub-regional group, stays steadfast in its fervent help for the laudable goals of BAG and is dedicated to taking part in an energetic and constructive function in seeing to the conclusion of such an air transport sector in West Africa and past.”
