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Pandemonium as Police arrest NLC president in Owerri
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, on Wednesday, arrested the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
According to a report by PUNCH, the Head of Information, NLC, Benson Upah, who disclosed this, noted that Ajaero was picked up at the state secretariat of the congress and taken to an unknown location.
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In his words, “President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, was picked up a few minutes ago from NLC state council secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination.”
The PUNCH reports that the NLC had vowed to mobilise its members for a total strike in Imo state starting Today, November 1, 2023.
Ajaero, during a press briefing on Sunday, had accused the Imo State Government of “violating the rights of the Nigerian workers in the state.”
Accusing the state governor Hope Uzodimma of neglecting workers’ welfare, Ajaero lamented that many of them have died because of the alleged lack of payment of their salaries.
