NCAA Workers Oppose Employment of Unqualified Directors

Air Transport Service Senior Staff Association (ATSSAN) backed by the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), National Association of Airline Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) and staff of the Nigerian Civil aviation Authority (NCAA) have protested against the recently appointed directors for the agency, saying some of them do not possess the prerequisite qualification to hold the offices they were assigned.

Members of the unions and NCAA workers who gathered at the agency’s headquarters in Lagos have threatened to shut down the airports for one week over what they described as imposition of untested and unqualified personnel as directors in NCAA unless government rescinded those appointments.

They condemned a situation in which the federal government would recruit outsiders, who would be shown the ropes to fill all technical positions in the agency.

Addressing the unionists and NCAA staff, the general secretary of NUATE, Mr. Olayinka Abioye alleged that the new director of finance and accounts, Ms. Bilikisu Adamu Sani is an educationist by training while the director of airworthiness standards, Mr. Ita Awak is a politician.

“We have done a critical assessment of the newly appointed directors in NCAA and found that out of the five only three are qualified to hold the positions. I’m aware that the newly appointed director of airworthiness standards has been a politician through and through. Airworthiness directorate should not be joked with for it is a sensitive directorate, except you want aircraft to be falling from the skies.