Keyamo moves to stop aviation unions’ September 18 protest
13 September 2024 |
3:03 am
Aviation unions have directed their members to embark on nationwide protest from September 18, over continued deduction of 50 per cent from their Internally Generated Revenue.
Aviation unions have directed their members to embark on nationwide protest from September 18, over continued deduction of 50 per cent from their Internally Generated Revenue.
The unions gave the directive in a joint statement signed by the National Union of Transport Employees (NUATE), Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Technical and Recreational Services Employee (AUCPTRE) and Air Transport Services and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN).
The unions, in a notice, titled ‘Save Aviation from Collapse’, also directed all workers of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Nigeria College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Nigeria Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), and Nigeria Meteorology Agency (NIMET) to begin peaceful protest at all airports nationwide on Thursday, September 18.
The peaceful protest, according to the unions, is to demand the discontinuation of the deduction of 50 per cent from the IGR generated by aviation agencies.
The union had planned to embark on a one-day protest on August 21, but the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, urged them to exercise patience, assuring them that he would work out modalities on how the deductions would be reduced to 20 per cent.
However, the unions, in the statement, noted that the deadline given to the minister of aviation expired at the end of August 2024. The statement reads: “All efforts on our part have failed to impress it upon the Federal Government that all the agencies are cost recovery and not profit-making organisations. As such, they cannot survive on half of their incomes under any model of administration or any other guise whatsoever.
“Information available to us indicates that some important safety critical activities of the agencies are grinding to a halt under the yoke of the deductions. It has, therefore, become incumbent on us as trade unions and workers in aviation to let the public and the government be aware that we shall bear no responsibility if the industry becomes dysfunctional as a result of financial incapacity due to the deductions at source.”
They directed that all state councils and branches of the unions nationwide mobilise and ensure full compliance and success of the protests. But responding to the call for protest, Keyamo has announced his plan to meet with the aviation unions.
The minister, in a statement he signed, said he would meet with the union on Wednesday, September 17, a day before the scheduled protest. He said the meeting would provide a platform to openly discuss the issues and allow the President, sufficient time to intervene and address the unions’ concerns comprehensively.
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