I have never flown Arik Airline, but I do intend to do so. Hopefully, at some point.
But I 'fly' around with a lot of Arik Airline staff a lot so much I know a few things about the internals of the airline.
I have never flown Arik Airline, but I do intend to do so. Hopefully, at some point.
But I 'fly' around with a lot of Arik Airline staff a lot so much I know a few things about the internals of the airline.
If the way the Airline treats some of her staff, her Nigerian staff, is any measure of the quality of thinking, and thought that derives from her management, then it is fairly safe to assert, that Arik Airline is being run by morons.
As I write this, we are midway into February, 2011 and I do know that some, if not all of the staff of Arik Airline locally in Lagos have not been paid their due salaries for the long expired month of January.
I have sought to figure out why from my few Arik flight-mates, and none of them seems to understand.
But they are willing to accommodate.
It is as though, the Nigerian - seemingly incapable of confronting fear in defiance - has been modelled to withstand, or to put it in Prophet Fela's simplicity, suffer and smile.
I do not understand.
Arik Airline hires a lot of international staff. It is in the nature of her business.
It is without question that Arik Airline gets her London staff's salaries paid on due date without exception.
Why is it then hard to replicate same standards with the poor folks who put up with the
incredible levels of decay and incompetent management that obtains in Nigeria, from Aso Rock through to Muritala Mohamed International airport, for their cause ?
Why is it hard for her management - and in fact all Nigerian management - to recognise that by treating her own citizens with so much disdain, withholding their salaries (for predictable dubious reasons ) they simply validate the slave mentality with which the African is having to struggle away from ?
It is my understanding that the last time a passenger got dissatisfied with Arik airline, he got a response from the airline's management to his complains here. So, this is to them, why are you not paying your Nigerian staff ? And why are you not paying them on time ?
And I also have problems with my friends, who put up with this sort of nonsense. There is no use crying, if you are not prepared to risk all, to put up a fight, to the cause of your pain.
You are either a slave, or you are not accepting to be a slave. Maybe then, people would stop treating you like one. There is no midway to it.
If Arik airline is not willing or capable of meeting up her obligation as an employer, then it may be time to close up shop, but It is enough time someone start speaking up to all these powerful corporations, who collude to enslave Nigerians, right on Nigeria soil taking total advantage of the almost infinite elasticity of the Nigerian spirit.
It is quite that simple.
'Dapo Osewa
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