text: December 24, 2012 by The Nation
  NASS workers union EXCO dissolved
  The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has dissolved the executive committee of its National Assembly (NASS) chapter.
  It also froze the bank accounts of the chapter and urged the Registrar of Trade Unions (RTU) to audit them.
  In a communique at the end of the association’s emergency NEC meeting in Abuja, the national body asked the RTU to call to order one of its members.
  A NEC member and Chairman, Kogi chapter, Alhaji Mohammed Bello, who read the communique, said the hammer fell on the chapter “following acts inimical to PASAN’s well-being.”
  “This NEC decision was based on the dictates of Rules 19 (10), 20 (6), 13 (4) and F/1 20 (6) of PASAN’s Constitution. Thus, the NASS exco stands dissolved.
  “All the accruable dues in the chapter will now be paid to the national body, while its accounts have been frozen.
  “We also call on RTU to go on to audit the chapter’s accounts and take all actions it deems necessary to restore sanity in line with what we have in PASAN’s Constitution,” he said.
  Bello said NEC felt it had to take action as the NASS chapter was already over-stepping its bounds.
  “The NASS chapter is one out of many chapters in PASAN and it is duty bound to abide by all the laws of the association, which we all subscribe to through our constitution and which is the only legal instrument we have,” he said.