NUATE petitions against unfairness in sack and deployment of FAAN staff

The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) has petitioned the minister of state for aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika claiming that the recent restructuring and re-deployment of staff in the Federal Airports Authority (FAAN) was not done with fairness.
In the petition ‘Re: Implementation of Proper Placement in Aviation Parastatals – Not Yet Uhuru, with reference NUATE. GS/HMS.FMT/ENP/0017-16, and signed by NUATE’s general manager, Mr. Olayinka Abioye, the union alleged that the names originally written for demotion or termination were tinkered with by privileged people in FAAN.
NUATE insisted that the proper placement demand made by the union had not been implemented to the letter stating that names were deliberately removed before the commencement of the exercise in FAAN.
It warned that “this single failure could dent the exercise as its being seen as yet another fraudulent exercise.”
The petition reads in part: “We hereby demand a complete review and or that in the alternate, the nominal roll used for the last exercise should be checked in such manner that those employees who were not captioned in the said nominal roll should be assumed [to be] non staffers of FAAN and declared as ghost workers.
“We also demand, as representatives and participants in the said committee, a copy of the committee’s report, within one week, for our perusal and follow-up.”
The union also referred Sirika to an earlier petition on October 16, submitted to the ministry on its (union’s) observations of the wrong and irregular employment and placement of officers at NAMA, saying that 29 personnel from NAMA were wrongly placed.