The Investment and Security Tribunal (IST) has said the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Technicians, Entertainment and Recreational Employees (AUPCTRE) should strictly keep off from them in their best interest.
This resulted following the recent SOS which was written to President Muhammadu Buhari by one Mr. Benjamin Anthony who is AUPCTRE national president.
Director Corporate Communications Kenneth Ezea said this Tuesday in a statement in Abuja.
Ezea said they had read stories (SOS) written by Anthony to the president to “step in and resolve the crisis rocking Investments and Securities Tribunal.”
“The said Benjamin Anthony also made other untenable and invalid claims about the tribunal and its Chairman/CEO which we wish to correct for the proper guidance of the members of the public,” he said.
He stated that “On May 21, 2019, the National Industrial Court (NIC) resolved a case between the AUPCTRE and the tribunal and in its judgment given by Justice Sanusi Kado ruled that AUPCTRE is not the legal trade union to represent members of staff of IST.
“The court also restrained the officers of AUPCTRE from parading themselves as representatives of IST staff while directing management “not to interfere with the staff in choosing to join appropriate union within the jurisdictional scope of the industry to which they belong” which is the judiciary.
“Our records show that AUPCTRE actively presented and defended its case before the NIC until judgment was delivered but instead of complying with the decision of the court they chose the use of violence to simulate and precipitate artificial crisis around the tribunal.”
He said AUPCTRE leadership was using its staff, especially lawyers to fabricate wicked and malicious petitions against innocent chief executives of federal government agencies under the guise of labour union agitations.
“Such malicious and intractable manipulations have already led to the closure of the NERFUND office,” the statement said.
