The National President of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN),has insisted that Comrade Tommy Etim Okon is its National President.
The ASCSN Secretary-General, Comrade Joshua Apebo,clarified this in a statement,adding those who intend to rock the boat with the incumbent leader of the union should look elsewhere
He said that the next National Delegates’ Conference of the Association where a new National President is expected to emerge will emerge next July.
“Thus, the National President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria is Comrade Tommy Etim Okon PhD and he will lead the Union to the next National Delegates Conference in 2024..We therefore, urge our teeming members throughout the country and the general public to discountenance the misinformation and disinformation in the social media where an expelled member of the Union, one Bola-Audu Innocent is claiming to be the National President of the Association,” the union emphasized.
The union recalled that in 2021, Bola-Audu Innocent and three others were arraigned in a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Maitama, Abuja by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
They were accused of engaging in human trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable persons.
It maintained that if FCT High Court ruled that Bola Audu Innocent had no case to answer in the criminal case he was facing with three others, that had nothing to do with the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria.
“As far as we are concerned, Bola-Audu was expelled by organs of the Association for anti-union activities and he filed a suit at the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja to challenge his expulsion.“It is, therefore, surprising that Bola-Audu Innocent is now claiming in the social media to be the National President of the Association when the matter he instituted at the NIC is being adjudicated upon by a court of competent jurisdiction,” the union regretted.
