The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate in Adamawa State, Tijjani Galadima has commended the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) for its contributions to transportation safety across Nigeria, particularly its interventions in Adamawa State.
Galadima, who alongside his running mate, Adamu Kamale gave the commendation when they paid a courtesy visit to the Director General of NSIB, Capt. Alex Badeh on Monday in Abuja.
Galadima said he and his deputy were at the Bureau to acknowledge the efforts of the NSIB in strengthening transportation safety and its interventions in Adamawa State.
He expressed appreciation for the director-general’s leadership, noting that the Bureau’s activities had continued to demonstrate the importance of evidence-based safety investigation in preventing accidents and improving the safety of transportation systems across the country.
The APC candidate also commended the NSIB for maintaining a professional approach to safety investigations and for engaging relevant stakeholders in efforts to identify safety deficiencies and make recommendations capable of preventing recurrence of accidents.
Responding, the NSIB director-general highlighted the critical role of the NSIB in investigating accidents and serious incidents across Nigeria’s transportation sectors, including aviation, rail, road and marine transportation.
He explained that the Bureau’s investigations are primarily focused on determining the causes and contributing factors to accidents and incidents, identifying safety deficiencies and issuing safety recommendations aimed at preventing similar occurrences in the future.
The NSIB boss also enumerated some of the Bureau’s interventions and engagements in Adamawa State, noting that the agency had maintained strategic institutional partnerships and leadership-level engagements in the state as part of its broader efforts to strengthen multimodal transportation safety coordination.
According to him, The Bureau’s engagement with Adamawa forms part of its commitment to ensuring that safety investigation and accident-prevention mechanisms are strengthened not only at the federal level but also through effective collaboration with state institutions and other relevant stakeholders.
He stressed the importance of collaboration between the NSIB, state governments, transport operators, emergency-response agencies and other stakeholders in building a stronger safety culture.
Badeh noted that safety recommendations arising from investigations are designed to address identified deficiencies and provide practical measures that can help regulators, operators and other stakeholders improve their systems.
He further explained that the Bureau’s work goes beyond investigating accidents after they occur, stressing the importance of learning from previous occurrences and translating investigation findings into preventive actions.