The Air Transport Service Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, has threatened to ground aviation operations in Nigeria over the Federal government’s 50 per cent internal revenue deduction policy for Ministries, Agencies and Departments, MDAs, and government-owned enterprises.
ATSSSAN’s National Executive Council disclosed this in a
recent communique after NEC in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Recall that the Federal Government, in a letter through the
Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, mandated all MDAs to remit 50 per cent of all
their internally generated revenue to the government’s confers.
However, ATSSSAN asked for exempting aviation agencies from
the deduction of 50 per cent of their IGR under the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
The association said the agencies were not established for
profit, adding that stifling them of the required funds would jeopardise the
effective performance of their safety and security mandates.
ATSSAN warned that if the federal government insisted on the
deduction, thereby compounding the current financial state of the agencies, “we
may be forced to direct all aviation workers to down tools until the government
reverses itself.”
Last year, through the Office of the Accountant General of
the Federation, the government commenced the 50 per cent internally generated
revenue deduction from federal government-owned enterprises.
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