At Civil Aviation school inauguration: PM says institution will boost sub regional growth, diplomacy.

The facility was inaugurated yesterday. This was during a ceremony that took place on the school’s campus in Nsimalen, Mfou Subdivision, Mefou and Afamba Division of the Centre Region.  
Dion Ngute inaugurated the facility on behalf of the Head of State, Paul Biya.

Speaking at the event, the Prime Minister said the school would play a key role in boosting growth and diplomacy in the Central African Sub Region.

According to the PM, the CCAA institution would ease the training of Cameroonians and other nationals in aviation-related fields. The school, he also said, will become a major driver of Cameroon’s growth, especially in the transport sector.

Dion Ngute said the infrastructure is a materialisation promise which the Head of State made at the beginning of his current term in 2018. The school, Dion Ngute also noted, is a boost to the air transport sector. 

“We know the role air transport plays in our economy and our development strategy in exchange of persons and goods. So, it is of capital importance,” Dion Ngute stated, adding that: “This is an added value to us in Cameroon but also to the Sub Region of Central Africa and indeed Africa as a whole”.

The institution, the Prime Minister further noted “is an essential tool in the process of intensifying international trade but above all, the process of strengthening regional integration with the view to boosting national growth and enhancing the efficiency of human interactions and trade flows”.

The quality of the facility, he said, is of world standards and gives no room for one to envy others in different parts of the world.

The CCAA training school structure 

The CCAA Training School was created in March 2016. It is located at the main entrance of the Yaounde-Nsimalen International Airport.  

The project was launched in July 2018 and lasted 49 months. The construction works were executed by China Shanzi Construction Engineering (Group) Corp. 

According to the CCAA, the project cost 3.4 billion FCFA. It is a four-storey-building comprising lecture halls, assimilation room, library, technical rooms and administrative offices.

According to the General Manger of the CCAA, Paule Assoumou Epouse Koki, the inaugurated section is the first of several other facilities earmarked for the project. 

The GM said CCAA will also construct a hotel, a sports complex and its headquarters. She said the school is timely.

The GM said the institution will enable Cameroon meet up with the increasing demands of the aviation sector in Africa. The sector, she said, will need over fifty thousand personnel by 2040. 

“Africa will be in need of twenty thousand additional pilots by the year 2040. Over 25,000 commercial agents and over 21,000 maintenance technicians will be needed within the same time frame,” the GM said. 

She said, this makes it necessary for “Cameroon to respond to these by training and holding capacity building events”.

The school, she said, will be opened to partners worldwide. Standards, she insisted, will be upheld.