Aviation workers issue ultimatum on airports privatisation - Business Day

Still worried that the proposed partial privatisation of the four international airports in the country will cause loss of job and disaffection, members of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) have given a 21 day ultimatum to the Federal Government.

The association has demanded that government reverses it intention to sell or privatise the airport across the country or be ready to face whatever action to be rolled out by them.
This ultimatum is coming barely one week that the National Union of Air Transport Employees NUATE issued its own ultimatum.
It would be recalled that minister of state 1, transportation, Felix Hyat disclosed recently that the Federal Government was going to privatise the airports.
In the petition to President Umaru Yar’Adua signed by Benjamin Okewu and Sunny Aiyede President and secretary respectively, made available to Business Day, ATSSSAN expressed concern over the seeming threat that was being posed to security and safety of the aviation industry as a result of the proposed concessioning and selling of airports.
The petition they claimed became necessary on the premise of the grave dangers ahead of Nigerians in the aviation sector. Full Story