The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) on
Wednesday faulted the scrapping of the Ministry of Aviation by the Federal
Government.
The Assistant General-Secretary of NUATE, Mr. Olayinka
Abioye, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in Lagos.
The Federal Government had on Tuesday merged the ministry
with the ministry of transport as part of the restructuring of the public
service.
Abioye argued that the merger did not make economic sense and
might cost the nation a lot of money in future.
“Our position has always been that it doesn’t make economic
sense for these ministries to be merged.
“Our argument is that it makes no difference because the
structure of the ministry of aviation will still remain.
“The only difference that we see is that there will be one
minister and may be a minister of state.’’
He recalled that on two occasions, the ministries were merged
under former President Olusegun Obasanjo but were reversed to the status quo in
order not to destroy the sector.
The unionist said it would have been better to restructure
various agencies in the ministry to cut cost and improve efficiency.
“We will make our position known to government but we are not
going to attack government.
“We believe that we will work together to ensure that the
sustainability and turnaround that everybody is wishing for the industry comes
to pass,’’ Abioye added.
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