Corruption accusations and leadership crisis is apparently rocking the Federal Civil Service Pensioners Branch (FCSPB) of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP).
While FCSPB Chairman Comrade Sunday Omezi, recently accused its mother union-NUP- of refusing to remit an entitled checkoff dues totaling N200 million to his Branch coffers, some members of the same branch have refuted the claims; desribing it as a false accusation.
The group, Concerned Federal Civil Service Pensioners Stakeholders under the leadership of Alhaji Ahmed Lawal and Chief Ignatius Godsfrey Uzormah, however accused the Omezi-led leadership of gross mismanagement of their Branch’s funds, and further expressed displeasure over the accusation of NUP withholding FCSPB the said money.
“Comrade Sunday Omezi is full of heresy and fallacy, he laboured hard to tarnish the good name of the Nigeria Union of pensioners (NUP) in order to score cheap point,” the stakeholders said.
They further said: “Please be informed that Mr Sunday Omezi is no longer the National‘ Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Branch of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners as he claimed, his tenure of office has expired since July 17, 2022.
“The Nigeria Union of Pensioners cannot therefore continue to pay the monthly dues to the defunct EXCO led by Comrade Sunday Omezi having expended his tenure of office.
“As we speak today, the matter is still pending at the National Industrial Court (NIC), Abuja. How then do you adjudicate over a matter that is pending in court?”
