*insists ex president was expelled for unruly behavior
*warns embattled Bola Audu against intimidating members
By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
While warning the immediate past president, Bola Audu to stay away from causing disaffection among their members, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Kaduna State Chapter has passed a vote of confidence on its national leadership.
Comrade Abdullahi A. Danfulani ASCSN Kaduna Branch Chairman, expressed this on behalf of members of the association in the state, while briefing newsmen at their State secretariat on Wednesday August 24, 2022.
“In view of the above, Kaduna State Branch/Chapter of the association therefore, warns Bola Audu and his misguided cohorts that, they would be held solely responsible if any staff of the union at Lagos and Abuja is harmed in anyway.
“Furthermore, Bola Audu and his gang should steer clear of the National Secretariat of the Association in Lagos and Abuja so that the association can continue to pursuing its statutory responsibility of protecting and safeguarding the interest of its teeming members throughout the Federation as it has been doing over the decades.
“Finally, the entire leadership and the teeming members of the association of Senior Civil Servants Kaduna State Branch/Chapter hereby, passes a vote of confidence on the National President of the Association, Comrade Tommy Etim Okon (Phd) and the Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, and urge them to remain steadfast and continue with their services to the Association in general,” the association said.
Reading from the text of the briefing, jointly signed by himself, Comrade Ebere Okpala (Chapter Chairperson) and Comrade Musa Muhammed (State Secretary), he said the association condemns in strong terms, a recent invasion of their national secretariat by Bola Audu, whom the association has expelled.
“The Kaduna State Branch/Chapter of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, condemn the recent invasion of our National Secretariat in Lagos by expelled members including the Former President of the association, Bola Audu Innocent alongside some hired thugs.
“It may interest you to know that the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria is made up of the cream of highly educated and well experienced technocrats in the public service of the Federal Government and the (36) States of the Federation.
“Thus it is a composition of Civil Servants that cherish due process and decorum in the running of the affairs of the Association,” the ASCSN Kaduna Branch Chairman said.
He recalled that Bola Audu was made to step aside in March last year by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the association after he was arrested in Abuja by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for alleged trafficking in persons and exploitation of vulnerable persons, while the association was exploring formal channels to see how he could be given soft landing by the authorities, Bola Audu invaded the National Headquarter Annex of the Union in Abuja and indulged in all manner of Constitutional breaches thereby, forcing the association to expel him from the union after an Emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at Lagos in August 2021.
