Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) from interfering with domestic aircraft operations.
Disrupting flight operations, according to Keyamo, would negatively impact both international visitors and citizens and reflect poorly on the nation.
Speaking on Thursday in Effurun, Delta State’s Uvwie local government area, at the Ministry’s Ministerial Retreat. According to the Minister of Aviation, the industry was not part of the drama that led to the recent beating of Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Imo State.
He continued by saying that because the Labour Movement and the Labour Party (LP) are not the same thing, and because stakeholders need to understand the difference between the two, they must fight the impulse to destroy themselves on the political scene.
Condemning the abuse of Ajaero in Imo, Keyamo urged labor leaders to distinguish between politics and the labor movement, saying that what is going on now is just politics and not a struggle for workers.
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“Aviation was not involved in the alleged molestation of the labour leader. Please, leave aviation alone. In targeting aviation, it affects both foreigners. They are disrupting the entire country. They are my friends, I have been part of them.
“Do not allow the Labour Party to destroy the labour movement. Call your leaders together. In other climes where these happen, the Labour movement are the owner of the party, here they don’t own the party. The Labour movement cannot be hirelings of the Labour Party.
“This is my appeal to them, do not destroy yourselves on the platform of politics. They should not target aviation and please not bring politics to aviation. What they are doing is politics, not labour movement. It is not fight for the workers. It’s politics.
“I condemn what happened to my friend, Ajaero. But in the same breath, you should not find yourself in such place,” Keyamo said.
