Trouble is brewing among unions in the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) over the mysterious disappearance of approval given by the immediate past director general of the NCAA! Captain Usman Mukthar, for 30 per cent Duty Tour Allowance (DTA).
Addressing workers of the agency at the annual prayers service held at the headquarters of NCAA, the Chairman of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), NCAA branch, Comrade Shofolahan Ayodele, explained that the Incomes, Salaries and Wages Commission during their visit disclosed that what they were collecting as local running was not up to what they were expected to collect, presently.
According to Ayodele, they were supposed to be collecting 30 per cent of their DTA following a letter written to Captain Muktar, the former DG who gave approval for the collection.
While expressing displeasure that the approval file disappeared following the removal of Muktar, Ayodele declared:”till today, we can’t find the file.It has disappeared. I don’t know if they have kept the file with you, if it is with you please bring it out because we are going to prayagainst those holding that file this year because that file must come out because the former DG approved it.”
He appealed to the workers of the authority saying: “the file was personally delivered to me and I delivered to the appropriate authority and I don’t know where that file is now.Go and check every file, the file is on the issue of 30 per cent local running please assist us, we need your cooperation”,he appealed to his Co-workers in NCAA.
On the issue of promotion, the ATSSSAN Chairman said, 60 per cent of it has been resolved based on vacancy, just as he added that the issue of their condition of service was generating a lot of tension on daily basis, but expressed hope that it will soon be resolved.