The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has re-affirmed Innocent Bola-Audu as the legal and lawful President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants in Nigeria (ASCSN).
In a judgment delivered virtually on 9th July 2024 Justice Oyewumi Oyejoju Oyebiola held that the suspension of Bola-Audu by the Central Working Committee of the ASCSN and his subsequent expulsion by the National Working Committee was unlawful, illegal, null and void.
The Judge held that Bola-Audu ought to have been reinstated as the President of ASCSN after the High Court of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting in Maitama had cleared him of all criminal charges filed against him by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
Defendants in the suit are the
Association of Senior Civil Servants in Nigeria (ASCSN), Bashir Alade Lawal and Tommy Etim- Okon as 1st to 3rd respectively.
It would be recalled that on Monday, 22nd February 2021, NAPTI) arrested and…