Nigeria's National Union of Air Transport Employees has warned the Federal Government to immediately halt its plan to concession the four major airports in the country or face Industrial Strike.The union made this known in an eight-point communique issued at its National Executive Council meeting held in Ilorin, Kwara.A copy of the communique which was signed by NUATE’s General Secretary, Olayinka Abioye, was made available to newsmen in Lagos on Thursday.Abioye’s communique faulted the plan to concession the four airports which it described as the cash-cow out of the 22 airports owned by the Federal Government. Abioye said: “The NEC in-session therefore calls for immediate stoppage of the concession of Nigerian airports to avoid industrial crisis that may arise as the government has failed to carry along stakeholders on this germane matter.”He urged the aviation agencies, including the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency to improve the welfare of their workers. Recall, the Minister of State for Aviation, Capt. Hadi Sirika, had on September 6, announced that there was no going back on the concession of the Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt Airports.
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