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NCAA Audits Foreign Airlines On Nigerians’ Employment

Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation, Honourable Nnolim Nnaji, has said that foreign airlines operating in the country will be subjected to audit in order to ascertain the number of Nigerians they employ as their cabin staff and technical crew.
Noting that the audit would be done through the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), he said if discrepancies are found, necessary rps will be taken to correct it.
“If it is discovered that Nigeria is being shortchanged in any way, we will not allow it”, he stated.
The Committee’s Chairman also tasked foreign airlines to employ Nigerians as cabin crew members and other positions, in accordance with relevant laws.
Nnaji, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja said, “The parliament would also be interested in finding out the percentage of their tickets that are sold by local travel agents and at what commission.”
He stated that the country had been over generous to the airlines with unrestricted access to the Nigeria travel market, an act which they (foreign airlines) “must reciprocate by engaging indigenous pilots, engineers and licensed cabin crew into their technical staff.
“Most of the foreign airlines are granted multiple entry points into the country, so as representatives of the people we will be interested in knowing how such gestures reflect on our economy and labour force.
“It is equally important that we know the percentage of their tickets that are sold by our local agents so that we ensure that what obtains in other climes are same here,” Nnaji stressed.