The FAAN management had promised to start
the payment of the CPA last month but failed to meet its obligations.
The secretary of NUP FAAN branch, Comrade
Emeka Njoku addressing the pensioners accused the FAAN management of not being
insensitive to their plights as senior citizens.
Displaying various placards, the pensioners
vowed to remain at the gate FAAN. They accused the current management of FAAN
compounding their issues by paying workers first before pensioners, saying that
pensioners were paid first before workers by the past management
An implementation committee was set up
comprising two members of NUP, two representatives of the director of finance
FAAN, a representative of the audit department and three from the human
resources and administration directorate to draw up a template for the
Consequential salary /pension adjustment as concrete evidence, provide evidence
of progress implementation from various directorates within two weeks in March
2022.
Based on this development, the NUP which
had earlier threatened protest across the country’s airport decided to suspend
it.
Njoku then told journalists that series of
meetings were held between them and the management of FAAN without positive
results
In September 2021,FAAN management agreed to
commence payment in January 2022 but failed to meet up. With this, the NUP gave
ultimatum to FAAN to pay on or before 1st March 2022 and a meeting was brokered
while the protest was shelved.
It was then agreed that by the end of March
that the issues will be resolved but FAAN did not meet up with the agreement
In his solidarity speech, the general
secretary of Association of Aviation Professionals (ANAP) Comrade Abdulrasaq
Saidu said there were so many deceit in the system accusing the human resource
department of FAAN for not telling workers the real situation of condition of
Service
Saidu, noted that the absence of board of
directors for aviation parastatals has been the greatest problem of the
agencies