Group demands apology over attack on NLC president
The United Action Front of Civil Society on Thursday night demanded an apology from President Bola Tinubu over the arrest of the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero.
The CSO, in a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja, described the arrest of Ajaero as a bid to thwart what it described as a “popular mass protest of the Organized Labour in Imo state.”
The PUNCH reports that Ajaero was arrested by the police on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, at the state secretariat of the NLC. Though the police in a statement noted that they took Ajaero into protective custody following attacks by a mob, the NLC refuted the claims noting that Ajaero was arrested and brutalised.
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The statement read in part, “We find the Bola Tinubu government liable of complicity in this episode of bestiality displayed by the heavily armed forces of the Nigerian Police, who stormed the takeoff venue of the Workers’ Rally in Imo and abducted the NLC President to brutalise and murder him because they claimed the workers defied a court injunction.
“To this end, we demand that Mr Bola Tinubu, should tender an unreserved public apology to Nigerian workers and the President, Joe Ajaero within the next three days or risk an unprecedented mass actions capable of shutting down state business indefinitely.
“Enough is Enough! Nigeria belongs to the Nigerian people and workers. We can no longer tolerate this executive recklessness and impunity of the APC rule.
