ANAP cautions FG against politicising career positions in aviation sector

In view of the ongoing controversial appointments into various positions across the aviation sector, the Federal government has been urged to avoid politicising career  positions in the aviation agencies in order to ensure safety and achieve civil service goals

The general secretary of Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP), Comrade AbdulRasaq Saidu who made the call during an interview with the Nigerian Tribune in his office, condemned the manner in which the government has been appointing general managers from outside the aviation sector to head their senior civil servants

According to Saidu, the position of Directors and general managers before now belonged to career civil servants and has afforded them the opportunity to grow in the system and on the job

The ANAP scribe cautioned that such appointments would lead to bad blood and mistrust among workers even as the career civil servants will not like to work assiduously with such politicians.

Saidu however used the opportunity to warn workers against collecting money for trainings without attending such trainings, stressing that it has reduced management sponsorship for workers trainings.

He called on the management of the agencies to always request for training certificates and reports from such workers at the end of the trainings as training and retraining remained the key in the aviation industry.

According to Saidu: “That’s why some managements are feeling reluctant to encourage training over the matter and trainings and retrainings is to improve productivity but some have used it as a means of making money. The people who ought to caution them have benefited from such too. That’s how they rubbished the issue of training”.

Calling for check and balance in the system, he particularly  commended the trainings in the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) for training their staff adequately.

The ANAP Scribe who lamented how the workers were not happy over the continuous politicization of furniture grants and conditions of service as a result of politics introduced in the system, however pledged ANAP’s readiness to work with the new managing director of FAAN to achieve positive results adding that any obstacles will be dealt with accordingly.

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