The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) is currently leading a massive protest at the Murtala Mohammed Airport 1, Ikeja, Lagos, over the planned concessioning of the airports.
Labour unions in the aviation industry had kicked against Federal Government’s plan to concession the nation’s airports.
General Secretaries of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals, (ANAP), National Union of Air Transport Employees, (NUATE) and the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (ATSSSAN) had in a statement on August 9, said the unions had concluded plans for a nationwide protest against the plan.
They described airport concession as a crime against the Nigerian people and insisted the plan must be resisted frontally.
