LABOUR-oriented civil society body, the Congress of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (CSCSN), has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) for their recent raids on the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) when some of its top officials were arrested and detained for some days.
No reasons were given by the two anti-graft agencies for the raid although it might not be unconnected with probes on corruption and mismanagement of the senior staff association considering the category of staff arrested.
The statement signed by CSCSN’s convener, Comrade Andrew Emelieze, revealed that though those arrested, mainly senior officers from the Accounts and Admin departments of the national secretariat of the association and its FCT chapter, have been released, but their probe by the EFCC and ICPC continues.
Before the recent arrests, both the EFCC and ICPC have for some time now haunted the association on issues related with financial mismanagement and maladministration that involve current and past leadership of the association, which is affiliated to the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC).
In its statement, the CSCSN commended both the ICPC and EFCC “for the probing of the billionaire workers’ Union” just as it expressed the hope the “investigations will put an end to the large scale looting in ASCSN. We the members of the Union are following the investigations and hopefully wait that all the stolen wealth of the Union be returned to the Association.”
