Striking workers shut Abuja airport

Aviation activities were unopen down astatine the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja connected Monday pursuing the nationwide onslaught declared by organised labour implicit minimum wage.

Mr Samuel Wuyep, Chairman of Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSAN), Abuja chapter, confirmed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) successful Abuja

According to him, The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) had declared the onslaught enactment to property location their request connected implementation of caller minimum wage for workers.

He said the NLC and TUC had directed aviation work providers, hose operators and each aviation workers nationwide to embark connected onslaught from aboriginal hr of June 3.

“The onslaught has a batch of interaction here. Airport is not a spot you are going to gag about, astatine all.

“All airports each implicit the federation are shutdown. Though, we don’t person a wide dichotomy betwixt subject and civilian aviation but the civilian aviation operators person shutdown their services.

“Passengers that came into the airdrome were stranded outside. They were not allowed to summation entree into the terminal building. Even if they travel in, cipher is determination to be to them, “ helium said.

Wuyep said that each the work providers were closed down and services of aviation workers had been temporarily stopped.

He added that different affiliates and the adjunct agencies wrong and extracurricular the airdrome were arsenic observing the strike.

“So, we are connected apical of the game. We are hoping that the authorities volition bash thing truthful that everybody volition spell backmost to his moving spot and everything volition beryllium normalised,“ helium said.

According to him, aesculapian workers successful NAIA were arsenic gradually shutting down their services.

Wuyep said that immoderate staffers that went to the session were sent back, adding that each agencies nether the NLC and NTC were successful full compliance with the strike.

He said the passengers that came were calm and observed the rules of the game, arsenic cipher harassed oregon chased them away.

Wuyep, nevertheless said that lone the planetary flights were fixed the leverage to onshore for now.

“ Right now, the planetary flights are fixed the leverage to land. Already, they are coming from acold destinations, and the clip quality betwixt Nigeria and specified countries is thing you cannot reverse.

“Most of them were airborne successful Nigerian airspace earlier the commencement of the strike. Therefore, we volition decidedly let them to land. They are landing and departing.

“But, the grace of contiguous is fixed to them. After today, by tomorrow, each their services excessively volition beryllium grounded. So we expect the Federal Government to bash something, “ helium said.