The Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), yesterday, lamented the death of five former staff of the defunct Nigerian Airways, who passed on within the last seven days without receiving their final severance packages, which the Federal Government promised them since the liquidation of the airline by the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration.Â
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ATSSSAN noted that over 100 former workers of the country’s national airline have died since the last verification and part payment exercise carried out during former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2019. Â
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Speaking at the May 1, 2024, Workers Day celebration at the ATSSSAN Secretariat in Lagos, the First Vice President of the association, Emmanuel Jaja, urged the Federal Government to settle all the outstanding severance benefits of the erstwhile Nigeria carrier workers, who, he said, put in the greater part of their life in the service of their fatherland.
