NLC National Executive Council Meets to Take Action as Labour Presses on With Strike

The Organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), has begun mobilising its affiliates and state councils ahead of the total shutdown of the nation on Wednesday.

The NLC and TUC had on Friday resolved to embark on a nationwide strike to protest the brutal attack on its President, Joe Ajaero.

You will recall that operatives of the Nigerian Police arrested Ajaero during a protest march organised by labour unions in Owerri, Imo State, in response to claims that the state government was abusing and violating the rights of its workers.

The NLC alleged that Ajaero was brutalised by security agents attached to Governor Hope Uzodimma.

However, the Imo state Police command has refuted the allegations, saying he was not arrested but taken into protective custody.

Following the alleged assault, the organised labour demanded investigation and redeployment of the Commissioner of Police in Imo, sack of the Area Commander of the Police and all other officers and men in Owerri through whom the Police Commissioner supervised the attack as well as the arrest and immediate prosecution of Nwaneri Chinasa, an aide to the governor.

VOP News gathered that the National Executives Council (NEC) of the organised labour organs would meet in Abuja tomorrow to ratify the proposed nationwide strike.

Meanwhile, the NLC has alleged an invasion and attack on Ajaero’s hometown of Azalla Owalla in Emekuku, Owerri, in Imo State.

The NLC, in a statement by the Head of Media and Information, Benson Upah, alleged that the latest attack on Ajaero’s community on Saturday could be a plot to assassinate the Congress boss.

Upah said the invasion was carried out under the misguided belief that Ajaero was still present, recovering from injuries inflicted by the police and hired thugs.