ASCSN Debunks Charges of fraud in the association.

By Afolabi Oyekunle.

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria has described as baseless, frivolous and false, allegations that over $1billion (one billion dollars) of

the Union’s funds had been embezzled.

In a press statement issued in Lagos today (26th July, 2024), the ASCSN

Secretary-General, Comrade Joshua Apebo, enjoined its teeming members

throughout the country and the general public to discountenance such unfounded

wild allegations.

“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."

It stressed that 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.

According to the ASCSN, there had been various publications detailing

Nigerians owning properties in Dubai, United Aarab Emirates and Comrade Lawal name never featured in any of them.

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,” the Union stated.

The Union 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.

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,”

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