Mohammed Shosanya
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria,has faulted allegations that over $1billion (one billion dollars) of the union’s funds had been embezzled
It described such allegations as baseless, frivolous and false,enjoining members of the association in the country and the general public to ignore same.
The ASCSN Secretary-General,Comrade Joshua Apebo,conveyed this in a press statement made available to Premium News.
“How much did the Union generate as check-off dues between 2012-2022 when Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal was the Secretary-General that he embezzled $1billion”,he queried.
According to him, 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.
There had been various publications detailing Nigerians owning properties in Dubai, United Aarab Emirates and Comrade Lawal name never featured in any of them,he said.
He said:”Besides,how can it really be expected that Comrade 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”
He regretted that since Bola-Audu Innocent 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 22nd February, 2021for alleged case of human trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable persons, he has vowed to destroy the Union.
He added:”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-Audu has resumed another round of the same allegations he earlier made in 2021 and sent to the same anti-graft agencies”
