Airports across Nigeria will shut down beginning from Sunday
midnight, two leading unions in the sector have threatened.
The Unions – National Union of Air Transport Employees,
(NUATE) and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and
Engineers (NAAPE), in a letter dated October 21, 2015,
accused the NCAA of not adhering to the condition of service
with respect to promotion of workers and other welfare issues.
The letter jointly signed by the Secretary General NUATE and
Secretary General NAAPE, Comrades Olayinka Abioye and Aba
Ocheme, respectively, threatened to shut down the agency
from mid-night on Sunday until further notice.
The unions insisted that the withdrawal of service by the
workers became paramount in order to safeguard the integrity
of NCAA’s condition of service.
The unions noted that the action of the Director-General of the
NCAA, Captain Muhtar Usman, was in violation of section 3.4
of condition of service, adding that all efforts to discuss with
the management had been futile.
The letter said: “By the copy of this notice, the general public
is hereby informed of this development and the implications
that all safety regulations activities of the NCAA will be
unavailable from that time and date.
“The above notice will remain in force until otherwise directed
by the secretariat of our unions.”
“The management of NCAA has been playing some pranks so
to speak because ordinarily, people who are due for promotion
ought to have received their letters since January or
thereabout, but as we speak those letters are not forthcoming.
“The management is trying to introduce a new policy that is
not known to the condition of service, which is that they said
the ministry of aviation directed them to conduct an
examination.
“We are going to take all lawful and legal steps to ensure that
we do what we have capacity and capability to do, which the
last resort will be a strike because we are tired of impunity of
the NCAA management,” the letter added.