CPA: Pensioners Barricade FAAN Gate, Demand Payment

The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Tuesday barricaded the entrance to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN office Ikeja over the management’s inability to branch and its management to implementation of Consequential salary /Pension Adjustment (CPA).

The FAAN management had promised to start the payment of the CPA last month but failed to meet its obligations

The secretary of the NUP FAAN branch, Comrade Emeka Njoku addressing the pensioners accused the FAAN management of not being insensitive to their plights as senior citizens.

Displaying various placards, the pensioners vowed to remain at the gate FAAN. They accused the current management of FAAN of compounding their issues by paying workers first before pensioners, saying that pensioners were paid first before workers by the past management.

An implementation committee was set up comprising two members of NUP, two representatives of the director of finance FAAN, a representative of the audit department and three from the human resources and administration directorate to draw up a template for the Consequential salary /pension adjustment as concrete evidence, provide evidence of progress implementation from various directorates within two weeks in March 2022