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Police Take Over Nigeria Airways By Ndubuisi Francis A detachment of gun-totting mobile policemen numbering over 300 yesterday stormed the headquarters of liquidated national carrier, Nigeria Airways in Lagos taking over the premises in what may appear a final onslaught to dislodge the embattled workers who had earlier resisted an attempt by the liquidator to forcefully take over the place. The policemen who were said to have arrived the premises at about 10 am in several trucks had soon on arrival blocked all entry and exit points of the company. The police said to be acting on the prodding of the Presidency following a report by the liquidator, Babington Ashaye whose effort to take over the assets of the company had been thwarted by the workers who had already filed an appeal against a Federal High Court ruling of compulsory liquidation as opposed to their preferred choice of voluntary liquidation. Since that move by the liquidator to take over the assets, the workers had constituted themselves into a vigilante group to keep vigil on the company to forestal any attempt to take them on awares. THISDAY gathered that the coming of the police yesterday may have been planned on a Sunday when most of the workers would be away from work. The workers who were said to have already gotten wind of the police invasion have already began moblising for a showdown today. The workers, THISDAY learnt, may block all roads leading into and out of the airport today to draw attention to their plight. A Federal High Court in Abuja had on July 9, 2004 given a verdict that the airline should undergo voluntary liquidation, appointing Babington Ashaye as the liquidator. The workers followed suit with an appeal, claiming that the company had already commenced a process of voluntary liquidation with an assurance to pay its all its creditors in full should not veer off from that path. The appeal which is still pending in court will be haerd on October 13. The workers who and pensioners who are already being arrears of 18 and 28 months respectively only last week drew the sympathy of the London-based International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF). The ITF, in a letter addressed to the Aviation Minister, Mallam Isa, condemned the plight of the workers. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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