01/11/23
OLADIPO DG
PRESS RELEASE
The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC has accused the Imo State Government of abducting its President Comrade Joe Ajaero and attempting to murder him.
This is According to a press statement titled ‘Update on Imo,from Abduction to attempted murder’ and released by NLC Head of Media, Benson Upah Wednesday evening on Wednesday first of November 2023
The NLC says Contact was made with the Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero this evening at the Police Hospital in Owerri from where he was taken to Federal Medical Centre, Owerri where he is receiving medical attention.
The statement says Ajaero was thoroughly brutalized, his right eye at the time of contact was completely shut .
The NLC says Ajaero who spoke just little, stated that immediately after his arrest, he was beaten up and blind-folded and taken to an unknown destination, where more brutalisation took place, sometimes with bottles.
The NLC says some valuables of Joe Ajaero were seized and yet to be returned. They include his phones, money and other personal effects.
The NLC in earlier statements had accused the state Governor Hope Uzodinma of using the state Police apparatus to destabilise a plan protest against alleged unfair labour practices.
Meanwhile the lmo state Police Command in a statement insisted it did not abduct and arrest the NLC President Joe Ajaero, but was only taken into custody for protection after he was attacked by a mob, while mobilising Workers to shutdown some critical Public facilities like the Owerri Airport.
In the meantime a joint statement by the Trade Union Congress, TUC and the NLC, which was signed by the TUC secretary General, Nuhu Toro and NLC General Secretary, Emma Ugboaja, vowed to declare a Nationwide Protest and strike should Joe Ajaero was not released .
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