Aviation workers plan to shut down airports across Nigeria on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 over the FG's 50% reduction in their revenue.
Aviation workers have announced plans to shut down airports across Nigeria on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 over the Federal Government's 50% reduction in their revenue. The workers announced their plan to protest in a circular dated Wednesday, August 14, 2024 and signed by Comrades Ocheme Aba, Frances Akinjole, Abdul Rasaq Saidu, Sikiru Waheed and Olayinka…
“All workers of the NCAA, FAAN, NAMA, NiMet, NCAT and NSIB, joined by solidarity of all aviation workers are hereby directed to embark on peaceful protests at all airports nationwide on Wednesday August 21, 2024 to demand the discontinuation of deduction of 50% from the internally generated revenue of the agencies mentioned above through exemption,” the circular read.
“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 in the certain event that the industry becomes dysfunctional as a result of financial incapacity due to the deductions at source.
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