Aviation security being vital for the stability of every country. This could justify the aim of the two days workshop on enhancing security in the sector and modernization of security at the frontiers.
99 aviation experts from 14 countries this October 30th at the Training Center for Aeronautic Authorities in NsimalenYaoundé had a two days’ workshop on international civil aviation security, in the presence of the Delegate General for National Security Martin Mbarga Nele, the minister of Transport Ernest Massena Ngalle Bebehe and the Secretary General for Defense in charge of the National Gendarmerie, Galax Etoga.The workshop gave the experts the tools to master and verify the authentication of passports and other travelling documents. The knowledge that these experts will achieve in the two days’workshop will enable the fluidity of passengers and their security in frontiers during their traveling exercise.
In the workshop the experts dueled specifically on three key points; how to intensify control at the frontiers of countries in the central African sub region and West Africa, control the global tendency of global fraud on travelling documents and thetechnics of detecting them and finally the role of the public key directory to facilitate control on the frontiers. The Delegate General for National Security thinks that the workshop is of paramount interest as it works towards the control of frontiers especially at a period where the countries are exposed to terrorist attacks from time to time.
In synergy with experts of the International Organization of civil Aviation, the national transport administration and the security forces have through the workshop device better methods to put the frontiers of Cameroon on serious check. However,Cameroon is now on international norms on civil aviation. Paul Assoumou Koki the director General of the training center for aeronautics, by its French acronym CCAA, has taken many reforms to increase the security level of the civil aviation system. The October 2023 audit of the International Organization of Civil Aviation, IOCA says that the Cameroon security performance was honorable being at 79,39%. The country did not however go to sleep because it has an honorable security result.
Peter TAMBE
