Keyamo warns Organised Labour against disruption of aviation activities
By Peregba Jerry
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo SAN, has appealed to Labour leaders to cease disruption of aviation activities across the country.
Keyamo spoke at the ongoing Ministerial Retreat of the Ministry in Effurun, Uvwie council area of Delta state, Thursday, November 9.
Condemning the alleged molestation of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Chairman, Joe Ajaero, the minister advised that as much as possible, people must avoid environments that will cause such manhandling.
He said: “Aviation was not involved in the alleged molestation of the labour leader. Please, leave aviation alone. In targeting aviation, it affects both foreigners. They are disrupting the entire country. They are my friends, I have been part of them.
“Do not allow the Labour Party to destroy the labour movement. Call your leaders together. In other climes were these happen the Labour movement are the owner of the party, here they don’t own the party.The Labour movement cannot be hirelings of the Labour Party.
“This is my appeal to them, do not destroy yourselves on the platform of politics. They should not target aviation and please not bring politics to aviation. What they are doing is politics, not labour movement. It is not fight for the workers. It’s politics.
“I condemn what happened to my friend, Ajaero. But in the same breath, you should not find yourself in such place.”
The appeal is coming off the backdrop as the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and their members mobilized in a protest that grounded the main entrance of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International, Abuja.
The organised labour gathered at the airport around 8:58 a.m. on Thursday to enforce their directive to members working in the aviation sector to stop all flights to Owerri, the Imo state capital.
It was gathered that the protest is part of a series of actions that the two labour unions say they will zero in on Imo State, following the attack on the NLC President, Mister Joe Ajaero.
The NLC and TUC declared a nationwide strike, which will commence on Tuesday, November 14th, also because of the face-off with the Imo State Government.
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