At last, the siege laid on the first privately-funded terminal in Nigeria, the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two, operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, a member of the Resort Group, has ended.
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As information filtered in that unions in the aviation sector were planning to invade and destroy the facilities of the Murtala Murtala Airport Two, operated by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, concessionaires, business owners and some intending passengers at the terminal on Thursday embarked on a peaceful protest to decry the unions’ plan.
The protesting unions are the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers
The court on Tuesday granted the order restraining the three unions from carrying out their threats of disrupting the activities of the terminal from this morning in the suit filed by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, operators of MMA2
The Spokesperson for NCAT, Jude Amadi, made the denial in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos.
Olayinka Abioye, General Secretary, National Union of Air Transport Employees, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the unions are: The Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the union also ordered its members in both airlines to withdraw their services indefinitely until all the pending issues involving their welfare are resolved.
The airline’s Communications Manager, Kingsley Ezenwa, apologised in a statement issued to newsmen in Lagos on Tuesday, where he confirmed that the airliner had resumed normal flight operations
Unionists under the aegis of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the aviation unions had stormed the General Aviation Terminal of the airport about 8.05am to protest alleged casualisation in the sector
Olayinka Abioye, the General Secretary, NUATE, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos
The unions involved in the action are: National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers
Olayinka Abioye, the General Secretary, NUATE, who spoke on behalf of the unions on Wednesday in Lagos, accused the new management of intolerance to unionism
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria had on February 9 taken over the airline
Addressing the protesters, Olayinka Abioye, the General Secretary, NUATE, said the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, had earlier assured the unions that outsiders would not be given positions meant for career civil servants in the sector.
The unions said the planned closure of the airport scheduled to begin from March 8 for a six-week period would be counter-productive for the nation’s economy
This was made known in a communique signed by the leadership of the unions, Arik Air management and a representative of the NCAA
An official of the Airport who did not want his name in print told NAN that Arik had been the only domestic carrier with the capacity to manage the passenger traffic
The unions gave the directive in a strike notice in Lagos on Monday