Crisis Rocks Yola Federal Civil Service Club

Daji Sani in Yola

The federal public servants in Adamawa State have written a complaint letter to the office of  Federal Head of Civil Service through the Committee of Heads of Federal Establishments in the state, seeking the conduct of free and fair elections to end the current leadership tussle bedeviling  the management of the Federal Civil Service Club in Yola.

One of the  aggrieved federal civil servants called on the Head of Federal Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemi,  to step into the crisis which have turned the federal civil service  club into a war zone among workers in Adamawa State over the leadership tussle in the state

According to him, “All we want is for justice and rule of law to prevail. We  only want elections-enough is enough. Our mother, the Head of Service, should please come to our rescue as the present interim managers have boasted of connection in  Abuja. Do you know that the Federal Civil Service Club has no bank account after generating millions of naira? The monies are paid into personal accounts. This is unacceptable.”

The Federal Civil Service Club in Yola has been turned into a war zone, as a two-man interim committee constituted by the Director, Occupational Health Safety and Environment, Dr. Comfort Adeosun, has banned all federal civil servants in the state from membership of the club.

The federal civil service club was launched on December 7, 2022, by Head of Federal Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemi, for federal civil service workers in the state.

Investigations revealed that trouble started on November 27, 2023 , when a purported letter signed by Adeosun, alleging that she was acting on the directives of Head of Federal Civil Service, constituted a two-man interim committee with Marshall Johnson as publicity secretary and Ayuba Mboh, as secretary general.

Some senior public servants  questioned how Adeosun sat in Abuja and arrived at a two-man interim committee without a chairman, treasurer and financial secretary to run the affairs of the club.

Federal public servants in Adamawa state are appealing to the Head of Federal Civil Service of the Federation to ensure that election is conducted immediately, since Ayuba will be retired next month and Marshall is facing disciplinary action from his office (FRCN Fombina FM) for impersonating the general manager.

They complained that after paying money for membership forms without receipts issued to them, the two-man interim committee said that they are not qualified to join their own association.

Some of the senior staff of federal civil service in the state are calling on Independent Corrupt Practices Commission ICPC to wade into the financial misappropriation of the interim committee and unravel the whereabouts of the millions that have  accrued to the club through a lease whose terms of agreement is only known to the two-man committee.