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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