The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero has recounted his ordeal in police custody following his arrest in Owerri, Imo state.
NLC President was arrested by men of the Imo state police command while leading a protest in the state yesterday. Ajaero mobilise Imo workers for a mega protest against the alleged violation and abuse of workers’ rights and privileges by the state government.
The situation escalated into violence, NLC President was taken into custody by men of the Imo state police command.
Upon his release, Ajaero revealed that he was beaten and threatened by the police.
“If you say interim order, it elapses with time; if the court issues another one, then it’s a different thing,” Ajaero explained. “I told them interim order ends within one week or two; they now kept the letter and told me they can prosecute me.
“They beat me; God must have taken extra time to create me because of the kind of beating I received.”
Medical experts at the Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri, are currently battling to save Ajaero right eyes.
Condemning the attack, Benson Upah, NLC Head of Information and Publicity, described the treatment of Ajaero as an act of abduction that degenerated into attempted murder.
He said: “Contact has been made with Congress President, Joe Ajaero, this evening around 15:30 hours at the Police Hospital in Owerri from where he was taken to Federal Medical Centre, Owerri where he is receiving medical attention.
“Thoroughly brutalised, his (Ajeoro’s) right eye at the time of contact was completely shut.”
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