ANA DISOWNS ROOST FOUNDATION NATIONAL ESSAY CONTEST

The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has dissociated itself from the fake essay contest organized by some disgruntled and expelled members of ANA and pledged to take appropriate steps against their actions.

ANA National Publicity Secretary (South), Wole Adedoyin, said in a Statement in Ilesa on Thursday that the literary body has no prize called “ANA/ Roost Foundation National Essay Contest.”

According to the statement “We don’t know those claiming to be the organizers of the First ANA/Roost Foundation National Essay Contest. The organizers are criminals, literary insurgents, fraudsters, gun-runners, political thugs, land grabbers and throne thieves. The essay contest is part of their ploy to swindle Roost Foundation. These are well-known thieves parading themselves as ANA National Executive members. They are no longer members of ANA. The General Congress of ANA Expelled them last year for various listed counts of violation of the ANA Constitution and other forms of gross misconduct that have brought the Association into disrepute and public opprobrium.”

“We are using this medium to urge ANA members and the general public to disregard the Essay Contest. The contest was not organized by ANA. ANA shall investigate the illegal contest and deal with it legally,”

Adedoyin, finally urged members of the public, embassies, governments, corporate organizations to abstain and stop dealing with them. The body warned that whosoever transacts any business with them does so at his or her own risk.