The national headquar
ters of the Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU), has ordered the Comrade O.T. Lilly-West-led executive committee of the union in Rivers State to continue in office following the disruption of the  union’s 10th quadrennial delegates conference at Bachiever Hotel and Suites in Rumuogba, Port Harcourt last Friday.
The National Deputy President of the union, Comrade (Alhaji) Mohammed Tukur who handed down the order said there was the need for the Chairman of the union, Comrade Opuoyibo Lilly-West and members of his executive committee to continue to pilot the affairs of the union in the state in order not to allow a leadership vacuum, saying, he gave the order by virtue of the powers vested on him as the representative of the National President of the union at the aborted delegates conference.
While regretting the disruption of the conference midway by a group of young men loyal to the National Deputy President of the union (South), Comrade Menele Nzidee, Comrade Tukur  announced that a later date for the holding of a fresh conference would be communicated to the delegates and members of the union by the national headquarters.
The labour leader also condemned in strong terms what he claimed to be the arrest of four national officers of the union by the police while voting was already going on during the conference, stressing that the police team that whisked them away took them to three police stations within Port Harcourt before they were finally brought before the state Police Commissioner.
He further disclosed that the four national officers of the union wrote undertakings before they were released, stressing that some of the contestants were also ordered to report at the police headquarters on Monday (today) to write their own undertakings.
According to him, the police took that action because of the lies allegedly fed them by the Nzidee group which scuttled the delegates conference.
He, however, urged members of the union in the state to remain calm and peaceful, as the national headquarters would take appropriate actions to forestall  a re-occurrence.
While reacting to the disruption of the delegates conference in separate interviews, the former National Vice President of the union in the South-South, Comrade Mike Okeme decried a situation where the conference was allegedly disrupted by a national officer of the union, saying, the national headquarters and the NEC would mete out appropriate sanctions to the culprit.
Okeme who is also the Special Adviser to the Delta State Governor on Labour Matters said the national officer by virtue of his exalted position was supposed to promote peace and tranquility at the conference instead of truncating it.
On his part, the Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Rivers State, Comrade Addah Williams said the disruption of the conference came to him as a surprise since Comrade Nzidee was the Number Two Citizen of the union, and  wondered what actually brought him to the conference since, according to him, he was not officially invited.
According to him, as an indigene of Rivers State, what he was supposed to do as a national officer of the union was to give fraternity greetings to the delegates and not to disrupt the conference, even if he was a aggrieved.
Comrade Williams, however, urged the members of the union to remain focused and not to be distracted.
The Edo State Chairman of the union, Comrade Henry Eriamiatae-a, on his part, described the disruption of the conference as an eye-opener, saying, it was not in the best interest of the union.
He explained that NCSU, as the oldest union in the country, was expected to show examples to other unions