National Secretary of Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals ( ANAP), Comrade Abdulrasak Saidu has called on the Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika to urgently address the removal of the fire tower posing as an obstruction to the new international terminal at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja before the terminal is commissioned in next weeks.
Saidu said unless the problem is fixed attempt by Sirika to hurriedly package the new terminal for commissioning would amount to window dressing.
He said Sirika should concentrate his energy on fixing critical industry challenges including how to development infrastructure and build on human capital development rather than holding a talk shop dressed as stakeholders meeting.
This is just as he condemned the recent aviation stakeholders meeting held in Abuja, describing the gathering as a mere jamboree.
Saidu said the stakeholders meeting was a jamboree meant to achieve nothing.
Speaking with journalists in his office at Ikeja,Saidu said there was nothing new that the minister discussed with stakeholders in Abuja urging him to tackle critical problems facing the industry.
Saidu said ANAP decided to shun the meeting on account of lack of focus by the minister towards finding the lasting solutions to the myriads of problem in the aviation industry.
He said the aviation industry has remained stagnant by taking one step forward and two steps backwards adding that the industry was yearning for the infrastructure development beyond commissioning of terminal building.
According to Saidu, the state of fire service personnel has remained an eyesore while the campaign of carrying arms by aviation security personnel have become a political gimmick.
According to the ANAP scribe, there have not been any development in the aviation industry in the past three years, condemning the non transparent way of recruitment of the personnel into aviation agencies by the minister.
According to the union leader, instead of employing based on geo political zones, people were allegedly being employed from one particular zone from the North without considering quota system.
Saidu said in the past three years, Sirika has been shouting for the establishment of Maintain, Repair and Overhaul facilities MRO in the country pointing that till now nothing concrete has been done.
According to Saidu, only Aero Contractors has a hangar facility stressing that the liquidated Nigeria Airways hangar which would have served all airlines today was given out for peanut by previous administration.
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