The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has called on ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), as well as the security agencies, to desist from dealing with any member of its Central Working Committee (CWC) whose tenure expired on July 29.
The ASCSN stated that any officer who falls within the bracket and parades himself as a national president of the association was engaging in lawlessness, impunity, and gangsterism, which are alien to the ideals of the association and the trade unions in general.
The association’s Secretary-General, Joshua Apebo, in a statement, while expressing profound gratitude to the former national leaders for a successful tenure and wishing them success in their future endeavours, said no matter the position held, no member of the expired CWC has the right to be impugning the integrity of their colleagues.
Apebo said they were elected to office on July 29, 2020, for a constitutional period of four years, and their tenure ended July 29, 202,4, in line with rule 15(iv) of the association’s constitution.
“It is necessary to add that the tenure of the CWC has not been extended or elongated as the CWC has no power under the union’s constitution to extend its tenure,” he said.
According to him, the expiration of the tenure of the CWC has been communicated to the Registrar of Trade Unions, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Federal Civil Service Commission, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, National Security Adviser, Director-General, State Security Service, Inspector-General of Police and other security agencies.
ASCSN warns members against tenure elongation
[FILES] Workers stand beside poster guiding rules for compulsory vaccination of workers at the State Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria, on December 1, 2021. - Workers in the payroll of the federal government were early in the day barred from resuming duties to enforce December 1 deadline on compulsory vaccination of federal workers following the emerging cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Meanwhile, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria has asked the government to extend the deadline till March next year, to enable all federal workers take the jab and avoid a stampede at the vaccination centres. (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON / AFP)
