Arik Air reportedly becomes slave camp as unpaid staff beg passengers for money – See how they are being Treated The staff of Arik Air, which once advertised itself as Nigeria’s biggest airline, have been reduced to panhandling from passengers, as they are being owed a backlog of salaries. In addition to not being paid, the staff are working under horrible conditions similar to what obtains in slave camps. Sources in the aviation company told SaharaReporters that the Chairman, Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, has been terrorizing staff and sacking them arbitrarily. He is said to have studiously avoided discussing with staff on how to pay salaries, which stretch back to July. The Chairman, sources added, is more concerned about activities lined up for the airline’s 10th anniversary. He is said to sack staff on mere hearsay or text messages sent to him by traitorous staff desperate to do their colleagues in. Those involved function as spies, who invent allegations of wrongdoing and pass them on
