Contrary to the news making the rounds that the AIB has ordered its workers in Lagos office to relocate to Abuja immediately, information reaching Tribune Online has indicated otherwise.
Speaking to our correspondent on phone, the Commissioner of AIB, Mr Akin Olateru described the insinuation untrue saying: “It is only the management and head of departments and some staff that have been asked to relocate.”
According to him, prior to now, 80percent of the Bureau’s workforce consisting of the top managements and key officers had moved to the Bureau’s head office at Abuja about a year ago after the completion of the headquarters just like other aviation agencies.
Efforts he said were being made to ensure the remaining 20% of workers who are yet to relocate do so as soon as the financial status of the bureau stabilizes.
While attributing the latest relocation issue to the recent directives from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to AIB and some identified companies whose offices have been found to be a major obstruction to the new terminal building at the international wing of the Lagos airport, the AIB Commissioner therefore urged any of the affected staff ready to embark on leave pending when the accommodation issue will be resolved to do so while others are free to work from home till every issue is resolved.
Contrary to the allegation that workers were yet to be paid their January salary, Olateru declared that all officers from level 14 downwards have received their pay while efforts were ongoing to pay the top officers.
His words: ” 80 percent of those relocated have been paid their relocation allowance. Staff on level 14 below has been paid January salary. We have some issues with our account at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Everyone will be paid once that is resolved.”
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) had recently given the Accident Investigation Bureau and some other companies at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos notice to vacate their present offices within two weeks.
Other organizations that will be affected by this order includes: Caverton, Dominion, Evergreen Apple of Nigeria and ExecuJet hangars.
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Aviation, led by Senator Smart Adeyemi and Honourable Nnolim Nnaji have however warned FAAN against demolishing the affected offices and private hangars at Lagos Airport on the premise that it would cost the country billions of Naira.
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