Union Wants New FAAN MD To Prioritise Staff Welfare

The Air Transport Ser
vices Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) last Thursday, urged the new Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to continue to improve the state of the airports.
President of ATSSSANMr  Benjamin Okewu  spoke in an interview with newsmen in Lagos following the resumption of the new FAAN helmsman, Mr Saleh Dumona.
The Federal Government had announced the removal of Mr George Uriesi as FAAN’s managing director on March 4 and named Dunoma as his replacement.
Heads of three other agencies in the aviation industry were also affected in the exercise.
Okewu told our correspondent that it was good that Dunoma, who was formerly, director of projects, FAAN, was already part of the remodelling of airports.
“The new managing director of FAAN was part of the ongoing remodelling projects at the airports. We only hope that he would continue with the projects,’’ Okewu said.
He appealed to Dunoma and his counterparts in the other agencies to make welfare of staff their priority.
The union leader pledged that the workers would work with the helmsmen to make the nation’s airspace and airports the pride of the country.
“It is of great joy to us as stakeholders in the aviation sector and as a union that all the appointed helmsmen are from within,” he said.
Dunoma, while taking over, had promised to build on the successes of his predecessor.