- On Tuesday aviation workers under the aegis of Air Transport Service Civil Service Association (ATSSSAN) and National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) threatened to stop all services rendered to domestic airlines if they failed to settle their indebtedness to all the aviation parastatals within seven days.
- The union leaders during the protest put the debts owed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) at N20 billion, whereas the acting General Manager of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Sam Adurogboye, at an interaction the same day put the debt owed them by domestic airlines at over N5 billion.
- Also, recently, the Ministry of Aviation claimed that local airlines owed the agencies about N100 billion, but the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), which was coy about stating the debts owed it by these airlines said it was in the neighbourhood of over N5 billion.
- So what is incontrovertible is that airlines owe these agencies but the agencies do not know how much is owed them. There is no transparent system that calculates these debts in accordance to the services they render to the airlines.
Local Nigerian Airlines Owe Agencies a Whopping N100b – Ministry of Aviation
