The investigation indicated that the sacked Head of Servicom at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Mrs. Anne Idu, has been re-engaged by management.
A SaharaReporters investigation has revealed that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) may have re-engaged one of the 22 staff sacked in the recent ‘proper placement’ exercise carried out in the agency.
The investigation indicated that the sacked Head of Servicom at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Mrs. Anne Idu, has been re-engaged by management.
Mrs. Idu was placed on Grade Level 15 when she was brought into the system in 2012 by the erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah.
At first, Mrs. Idu was exempted from the right placement exercise when 22 middle and top management staff were shown the exit in October, but she was issued a sack letter five days later.
After being notified of her dismissal, Mrs. Idu vowed to contest the sack. Conveniently for Mrs. Idu, her husband, Fortune Idu, is a major consultant with the FAAN.
Apart from this, some of the staff whose names were removed from the original list of ‘proper placement’ exercise are now being redeployed to outside stations to prevent suspicion by some workers in the agency.
One of such workers is one Mr. Njoku Benedeth Ibeh, with the staff number 011075, at the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department of FAAN at MMIA.
Mr. Ideh is presently on Grade Level 13, but a letter of reposting to an outside station from the General Manager of Human Resources, dated 29 November 2016, has moved him to Enugu Airport as Head of ICT at the airport. He is to receive his letter of posting on Tuesday, 13 December 2016.
Other staff posted to different stations by the management of the agency, according to the document made available to our correspondent, are Assistant General Manager Akimgbolagun Funlola, with the staff number 007024, Ossi Enyinnaya Chile, staff number 011317 from the headquarters, Bala Abdulhamid, staff number 010770 in Kano Airport, and Olukunle Taiwo Adebayo with the staff number 010612 at the headquarters.
Others are Abdulahi Mohammed Aliyu, staff number 008906 at Kano Airport, Owolabi Michael Olamide, staff number 010713 from MMIA, Lagos, Timbo Emmanuel Justice, staff number 009693 from Abuja Airport, Kogi Stephen Gloria, staff number 008380, Abuja Airport, Mamman Zainab Musa, staff number 010993, Abuja Airport, Olatunji Olasoji Olusegun, staff number 011706 at MMIA, and Adebayo-Dada Tolulope O. with the staff number 011706 at MMIA.
Others are Mustapha Goni Adam, staff number 011595 at Abuja Airport, Ohilebo Apeh Victoria, staff number 008378, and Ngboma I. Egbondu Eme with staff number 010596 at MMIA.
It would be recalled that industry unions and some FAAN workers had accused management of tampering with the original list of those recommended for right placement in the agency.
Also, the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, had two weeks ago called for the comprehensive list of those recommended for sacking and demotion in the FAAN.
The Winifred Oyo-Ita-led committee on restructuring the aviation agencies, which had some unions leaders as members, had recommended proper placement of personnel in all the aviation agencies.
The comprehensive list, which was made available to SaharaReporters by a ministry source, had contained no fewer than 60 names in FAAN alone who were either recommended to be demoted or sacked as at 2015.
But the exercise, which was implemented in October 2016, only affected 22 middle and senior staff in FAAN while others were unscrupulously excepted.
Read the FAAN document obtained by SaharaReporters below:
