Nigerian aviation workers are set to stage a nationwide protest on August 21, 2024, in response to the Federal Government’s continued deduction of 50% from the internally generated revenue of key aviation agencies.
In a letter titled “Save Aviation From Collapse” released on Thursday, the unions announced that workers from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, and the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau will embark on peaceful protests at all airports nationwide.
The unions argue that the affected agencies are cost-recovery organizations, not profit-making entities, and cannot survive on half of their incomes.
They warned that critical safety activities are already being compromised due to financial strain and caution that they will not be held responsible if the aviation industry becomes dysfunctional.
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“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.”
The unions warned that critical safety activities within these agencies were already being compromised due to the financial strain imposed by the deductions.
They cautioned that they would not be held responsible if the aviation industry becomes dysfunctional due to these financial constraints.
“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,” they added.
The protest is a last resort after all efforts to impress upon the Federal Government the severity of the situation have failed. The unions urged the government to discontinue the deductions and exempt the agencies from the practice.
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