A former Director of Flight Operations of the defunct Nigeria Airways, Captain Dele Ore, has made it known to the Federal Government that should their workers not be paid off, the new national carrier will not succeed. Ore, shared his thoughts after it was announced that the Federal Government plans to re-fleet the national carrier by December. Ore said he is in support of bringing back the national carrier as long as the pensions of the former Nigeria Airways workers were cleared. 
Ore, who bemoaned the situation most of his colleagues are in now said most of them have died in the struggle and others left wallowing in abject poverty. “Which way is it going? Unveiling name? That doesn’t mean anything, that is paper airline. To me it still doesn’t make any meaning until an inaugural flight goes with passengers then you can say it has arrived. Until that time, there’s no airline,” he said. “Some only needed N5000 to buy medication. It is terrible, some children have been out of school for five years, families have separated. Just pay whatever is due or part of it. Let the people go and use that to repair whatever is left of their lives.” Photo Credit: Getty
