Comrade Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has shared his harrowing experience at the hands of his captors on Wednesday in a viral video that surfaced on Thursday.
In the video, Ajaero recounted the events surrounding his abduction, shedding light on the circumstances that led to his arrest.
Ajaero was heard saying, “If you say extend interim order, an interim order elapse with time, you know, if they have issued a fresh interim order is a different thing.
“They don’t extend interim order; it expires within one week or two. He should have issued another order ex-parte. They kept that letter; they kept that thing they posted to them.
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“He said, do I know that this thing they can prosecute me about? I said well, it is the same court that granted this order that can institute the contempt charge; you can’t just now start prosecuting me.
“My brother, they beat me God must have taken extra time to create me ordinarily, ehn, the kind of beating.”
Joe Ajaero’s ordeal began when he was allegedly abducted in Owerri, where he was supposed to lead workers in a protest against the state government.
He was addressing Imo workers at the NLC secretariat when heavily armed security operatives stormed the premises, forcibly took the labour leader, and transported him to an undisclosed location.
This is even as the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, was in town for the retreat for Senior Police Officers at Landmark Event Centre in Owerri.
The NLC president later reemerged with a bruised and swollen face after his release by officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, for immediate medical treatment. Sources alleged that the labour leader was picked up on the governor’s orders, Hope Uzodimma, for mobilising a workers’ strike in the state.
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