More than three months after her redeployment to the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), the former Director of Human Resources and Administration at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Hajia Salamatu Umar-Elumah has not resumed.
“We got a letter from the Ministry of Transportation posting her to AIB. All I can say to you is that nobody has reported”, AIB Commissioner, Engr. Akin Olateru said yesterday while responding to enquiries on the whereabouts of the agency’s Human Resource Manager.
The AIB, one of the agencies in the Federal Ministry of Transportation, (Aviation) has been operating without an HR Director following the controversy over the posting.
It would be recalled that the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika in a massive posting and redeployment involving Senior Management Staff posted Umar-Elumah to AIB.
The Director however rejected the posting which she tagged as victimization.
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She wrote a strongly worded petition to presidency, alleging “subtle attempts at truncating my career by the Authorities in the Aviation Sector of the Federal Ministry of Transportation.”
According to her, in 2000, she applied for employment with FAAN following a job placement advert by the then Andersen consulting (now Accenture) and after the rigorous recruitment exercise, she was eventually employed and appointed an Assistant General Manager.
General Secretary of National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Comrade Olayinka Abioye told Daily Trust the union does not want to dabble in her issue, adding however that the government has the right to transfer, redeploy or retire any of its civil servants.
He said, “I have said it several times. We do not want to be involved in the issue of Hajia Salamatu for one single reason. Already they are alleging that she is sponsoring the union to attack government which is far from the truth.
“The truth of the matter as far as we are concerned is that the government has a right to transfer, redeploy and retire any of its public servants. So if Hajia Salamat was transferred and said she doesn’t want to go, the government has a right to compulsorily retire her.”
