FAAN Security Man Slumps, Dies At Lagos Airport General Aviation Terminal
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) security personnel, Usman Mohammed slumped and died on Friday while on duty at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.
Olayinka Abioye, immediate past general secretary, National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) said yesterday that the deceased was a former executive member of NUATE, FAAN branch.
“We learnt he was on duty yesterday when he suddenly collapsed and died before receiving medical attention,” Abidoye said.
He said the deceased, who is survived by a wife and five children, has been buried, according to Islamic rites.
Abioye described Mohammed’s death as unfortunate, stressing that the FAAN management must give priority and urgent attention to the wellbeing of workers.
According to him, some aviation security staff are being made to work more than the required eight hours per day, without rest periods or compensation.
“It is said that some of them work for 12 hours at a stretch without break simply because the Directorate of Aviation Security is suffering from dearth of adequate manpower,” he alleged.
Abioye said although FAAN had been carrying out recruitments from time to time, such exercises were not on need basis, as expected, but on political expediency.
He said aviation security, which operates under Section 17 of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) convention, was critical to airport operations and must be adequately staffed.
Abioye, therefore, urged FAAN management to deploy more personnel to the directorate and also provide adequate medical facilities at the airport to prevent recurrence of such incident.
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on Dec 24 2018. Filed under National.
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