The National Union of Air Transport Employees,NUATE, is lamenting the plan by foreign airlines plan to sack over two thousand Nigerian workers because of a new Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN policy on forex and fund transfer which has restrained them from transferring their earnings to their home countries to meet operational costs in line with international regulations.
In a Save Our Souls, SOS letter to the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, Acting General Secretary of NUATE, Comrade Olayinka Abioye said that the affected workers have been destabilized.
He appealed to the Federal Government to intervene and prevent the impending huge job loss.
In the words of the NUATE scribe; “The reason being adduced for this danger is that their earnings in the past year is under lock with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN , as they are unable to transfer these earnings to their respective home countries to meet operational costs in accordance with international rules.
“Following concerns raised recently by leaders of these workers and other stakeholders and in appreciation of the good intent of the government’s fiscal policy, we humbly make this clarion call for your (Minister) intervention to grant foreign airlines concession to repatriate their proceeds to their home countries.
“We hasten to place on the front burner an emerging threat confronting over 2, 000 private sector aviation workers in Nigeria which requires your intervention to forestall imminent loss of jobs of these number of workers."
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