From all indications, the
federal government is set to pay workers of the liquidated Nigeria Airways
staff their full benefits about 13 years after liquidation.
Daily Times investigations
revealed that the government has done all necessary verifications to ensure
payment of the workers whose over 30 percent had died as a result of various
ailments since liquidation following their inability to access funds for medical
bills and good up keep.
The minister of state,
aviation, Hadi Sirika had in a function in Lagos told journalists that his
headache was sourcing for funds to settle the former workers of the liquidated
Nigeria Airways staff.
A total of N74 billion is required
to offset the former workers bills and the leadership of the ex-workers are
agitating for the payment of both the living and their dead colleagues.
It was however gathered that
the government has agreed to their demands and has made all necessary documentation
to effect payment before March 2017.
The workers were last paid
on five years’ calculation between 2007 and 2008 but they are agitating for 25
years pay.
Since the liquidation, the
ex-workers of the airline have been living in the trenches fighting for payment
of their entitlements.
The airline has lost about
700 workers as a result of ailments while those alive continued with the
struggle to get paid.
According to the Secretary
General of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professional ANAP, Comrade
Abdulrasaq Saidu, the payment of former Nigeria Airways workers has been long
overdue. It has gotten to the level when the money will not be relevant when
they are paid.
Saidu lamented that the
proceeds from the sale of Nigeria Airways till today has not been declared to
the public on how much it was sold with all its properties all over the world.
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