There are bold hints that the Federal
Government will soon resume its
retrenchment exercise in the
agencies under the Aviation Ministry.


The Minister of State for Aviation,
Senator Hadi Sirika, disclosed this on
Saturday night during his second
Aviation Stakeholders’ Forum in
Lagos.
Mr. Sirika explained that there are at
least 88 General Managers on Grade
Level 17 in the three agencies in the
sector, saying that the number is
more than what is required.
The agencies to be affected by
another round of “proper placement
and sack,” according to him, are the
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria
(FAAN), Nigerian Airspace
Management Agency (NAMA) and
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
(NCAA).
He assured that the government will
continue to weed out unrequired
personnel in the system, stressing
that President Muhammadu Buhari
has already given his approval for
proper restructuring to take place in
all the agencies.
“In all, we have 88 General Managers
in these agencies. Most of them are
not required and were just given
portfolios. As I’m talking to you now,
we have approval for proper
restructuring in the agencies. We
have started with FAAN. Very soon,
we will get to other agencies in the
sector.
“But, we have to do it according to
the Acts that set up these agencies
so that we don’t run into a problem,”
he said
The Federal Government, acting on
the recommendations of a
committee set up by the Head of
Service, had recently sacked and
demoted some staff in FAAN.
Though industry unions claimed that
some names initially pencilled down
for demotion or sack were
deliberately removed from the list
by influential figures in the agency,
the allegation, SaharaReporters
learnt, is currently receiving
attention from the government.
About two weeks ago, the National
Union of Air Transport Employees
(NUATE) petitioned Mr. Sirika to
continue with the purge in other
agencies.
NUATE specifically submitted 29
names from NAMA to Mr. Sirika, which
it said were wrongly employed and
placed in positions above their
qualifications since 2012.
At the forum, Mr. Sirika also insisted
that there is no going back on the
planned concession of four major
airports in the first phase of the
exercise.
He described infrastructure at most
of the nation’s airports as laughable
despite the billions of naira
expended on them by the
government over the years.
He, however, allayed fears that many
of the over 6,000 FAAN staff will be
laid off when the airports are
eventually concessioned. Rather, he
claimed that more staff will be
engaged to meet the new standards.
But industry unions, in a meeting
with the minister, maintained that
their members would be affected by
the concession plan and urged the
minister to rescind the policy.
A source close to the meeting with
the minister said the unions raised
several questions on the policy,
warning that if the government goes
ahead with the plan, they will make
the policy inoperable for the
concessionaires.
A source also told SaharaReporters
that four foreign companies have
been pencilled down to take over
the running of the airports from
FAAN.
But former President of Aviation
Roundtable (ART), Captain Dele Ore,
argued that there is no way the
concessionaires will not sack staff.
"Those who are untrainable or
expired would be shown the way
out after concession. So, there must
be job loss after the exercise. To me,
concession of the airports is the way
to go. We can’t continue to do things
the same way and expect a different
result.
“There must be a deliberate policy
for Nigerians, who are out of job to
be engaged by the system. We need
to move on, but we can’t achieve
that with our present way of
thinking," Mr. Ore said.


http://saharareporters.com/2016/11/13/buhari-approves-mass-sack-faan-ncaa-nama

Ok

Too many unproductive earners in the system. . .

If they're useless, send them to the garbage!