The Nigeria Accident Investigation Bureau has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with France and Benin Republic on accident investigation and other air safety measures.
The Commissioner/ Chief Executive officer, Accident Investigation Bureau, Akin Olateru, stated this at a one-day sensitisation symposium on the activities of AIB in Kano Wednesday.
The AIB boss, who was represented by the General Manager, Public Affairs (AIB), Tunji Oketunbi, said the signing of the agreement would enable the agency to go and conduct investigation on aircraft involved in accidents in the countries.
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He said arrangements had also been concluded for signing of similar agreement with Saudi Arabia.
He said AIB had done creditably well in the area of impacting safety even to the admiration of the international community.
“We were asked to come and conduct investigation in Sao Tome and Principle and we did it which is a cross border investigation.
“AIB is playing a leadership role because it has the support of the federal government. So, because our profile is rising, that is why the agency is not even the initiator of the collaboration.
“With the signing of the MoU, if anything happens in those countries, the agency will just deploy its personnel and equipment to the place to assist them,” he said.
He stated further that the agency had so far issued no fewer than 50 accident reports since it was established, adding that between 2017 to 2020, the agency had issued 32 accident reports which represented 60 percent of accident reports.
