The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has dismissed as baseless, frivolous and false allegations that over $1billion of the Union’s funds had been embezzled.
The ASCSN Secretary-General, Comrade Joshua Apebo, in a statement, enjoined its teeming members throughout the country and the general public to discountenance such unfounded wild allegations.
“How much did the Union generate as check-off dues between 2012 and 2022 when Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal was the Secretary-General that he embezzled $1billion.
It stressed that it is only in Nigeria that a faceless group like the so-called Nigerian Anti-Corruption Defenders Network could make such unfounded allegation to impugn the character of innocent citizens and get away with it.
According to the ASCSN, there had been various publications detailing Nigerians owning properties in Dubai, United AarabEmirates and Comrade Lawal name never featured in any of them.
“Besides, how can it really be expected thatComrade Lawal, an accomplished economist and expert investor who started his career in the Nigeria Railways in the 1980s, had a distinguished career in the civil service to wit: National Bureau of Statistics before he joined the Association and ultimately became the SecretaryGeneral in 2012 not have a roof over his head in Lagos?
“Certainly, there must be a limit to irrationality on the part of those bent on destroying the Association because of their inordinate ambition, greed and impunity,” the Union stated.
The Union regretted that since Bola-AuduInnocent was asked by the Union to step aside following his arrest and detention by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on February 22, 2021for alleged case of human trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable persons, he has vowed to destroy the Union.
Since then, he had written countless petitions to EFCC, ICPC, etc, accusing the leadership of the Union of all manner of false allegations including the sale of the Union’s property in Abuja, all of which were found to be false by the anti-graft operatives.
“It is, therefore, unfortunate that Bola-Auduhas resumed another round of the same allegations he earlier made in 2021 and sent to the same anti-graft agencies,” the Union regretted.
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