The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has dispelled speculations on alleged N14 billion fraud in the association.
The union equally dispelled rumours that its property, housing the national secretariat in Lagos and the ultra-modern complex under construction at Mabushi area in Abuja, had been sold by the current national leadership of the association.
Secretary-General, ASCSN, Alade Lawal, in a statement, regretted that few disgruntled members of the union, who engaged in anti-union activities and were expelled by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the association, had been elected to be propagating lies to anti-graft agencies and members of the public to impugn the reputation of the national leadership of the association.
Questioning the allegations, Lawal said: “What is the total check-off dues of the union since it was registered in 1981 that such a huge amount had been embezzled in the last 10 years?
“How can it be that a trade union such as the ASCSN with 36 state branches, 35 chapters, and more than 1,000 units in the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) at the federal and state levels, which organises meetings, seminars, training for its members at home and abroad, pays entitlements to its teeming members and officers be accused of corruption?”
He said all the documents in respect of the union’s properties in Lagos and Abuja, which were allegedly taken over by individuals and sold, were very much intact and being kept safely.
He lamented that it was unfortunate that those who were deliberately spreading falsehood were still walking in the streets as free citizens.
It said a former president had been cooking up lies against the leadership of the association and forwarding such falsehoods to the anti-graft agencies.
“In his unholy war, including propagation of falsehood against the union and its leadership, he has found a willing ally, a shady character, who was once sanctioned by the authority of a Federal Government Girls College in one of the south-west states, for engaging in illegal lewd orgies with under-aged girls in the college,” the union said.
