YemisiIzuora
About 6000 pensioners of the defunct Nigeria Airways has threatened to boycott the 2015 general elections over what they described as neglect by government.
They said their action was informed by governments insensitivity and neglect since the airline was liquidated in 2002 by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration government.
The pensioners after a meeting in Lagos expressed disappointment that after all attempts to get their money paid by the government has not yielded result.
They said they regrouped as a result of maltreatment and continued neglect by government adding that over 700 former workers of the airline have died as a result of incapacitation from ailments.
They regretted that neither the National Assembly nor the executive was ready to listen to them adding that the five years paid them was not in the interest of the pensioners but money paid to deceased workers.
They urged government to use the remaining four weeks to correct the anomalies adding that their colleagues in national shipping line will be paid in March while nothing was heard about that of Nigeria Airways.
