The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) is not happy with the latest announcement by the Federal Government scrapping the Ministry of Aviation.
The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) through its Assistant General-Secretary Mr. Olayinka Abioye, on Wednesday faulted the scrapping of the Ministry of Aviation by the Federal Government.
This was disclosed in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
This is coming after 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.
He said: “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.’’
Abioye stated that such moves in the past flopped and advised the government against such mistake again. He opined that it would have been better to restructure the 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