The Federal Government has stated that it will on Monday, 15th of October, flag off the final verification and payment of entitlements to former workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways nationwide.
The government gave this hint in a statement by the Special Assistant to Finance Minister on Media and Communications, Mr. Paul Ella Abechi, and confirmed that the exercise would be carried out for one week simultaneously in Lagos, Kano and Enugu.
The statement indicated that at the Lagos Centre, the exercise would be conducted at Sky-Power Catering, Ikeja, Lagos, while the Kano exercise would hold at ABC (former Nigeria Airways Office), Bank Road, Kano, and the Enugu verification exercise would take place at Villa Toscana Hotel, No 1 Aguleri Street, Independent Layout, Enugu.
It clarified further: “Beneficiaries are expected to come along with the following documents to the centres: Letter of Appointment, Letter of Confirmation, Letter of Last Promotion, Letter of Retirement, NAL Identity Card, Other Means of Identification (National ID Card, International Passport, Driver’s License, etc), Particulars of Bank Account: A cheque slip or statement of Bank Account, Letter of Administration to be presented by Next-of-Kin (NOKs) in the case of deceased beneficiaries.
“That beneficiaries will be subjected to biometric Data Capture; That beneficiaries should come along with copies of documents listed above for submission to the Verification Committee; That the beneficiaries are to be captured in an orderly manner hence, notice will be placed at the venue and specific date for capturing of each beneficiary will be indicated”, the statement added.
The Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, had during her maiden meeting with the ex-workers said that “upon my resumption of office as the Minister of Finance, some pending fiscal issues in the aviation and education sectors were immediately brought to my attention.
“As such, I took it as a challenge to quickly address key issues regarding the settlement of existing claims in both of these sectors. Consequent upon this, I am happy to inform you that Mr. President has graciously approved the sum of N22.68 billion and N20 billion to aviation and education sectors respectively”, she added.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government had on September 25 this year approved N22.68 billion as entitlements for the ex-workers of the defunct national carrier.
