Organized labor members have announced the conditions which must be fulfilled for them to avoid nationwide strike, scheduled for Wednesday, November 8, in response to the recent attack on Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Imo State
GOOD EVENING NIGERIA reports that Ajaero was arrested, brutalized, and hospitalized by policemen allegedly linked to the State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, during a protest by Imo workers concerning the alleged violation of their rights.
While declaring the nationwide strike, at Labour House in Abuja on Friday, Nuhu Toro, General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), accompanied by other NLC officials, demanded the immediate redeployment of the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Barde.
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Organised labour demanded: “The Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command; CP Ahmed Barde should not only be investigated and deployed out of Imo State for his serial complicitous and unprofessional behaviour and conduct immediately;
“The Area Commander of the Nigeria Police Force and all other Officers and Men in Owerri through whom the Police Commissioner supervised the brutalisation and humiliation of Comrade Ajaero and other workers be relieved of his office and stripped of his commission;
“Mr Nwaneri Chinasa, Adviser on Special Duties who supervised the terror on workers and bestial brutality meted out to Congress President; Comrade Joe Ajaero be arrested immediately and prosecuted for his crimes against workers and the President.
“We demand an immediate, independent and unbiased thorough professional medical examination of Comrade Ajaero in light of the physical and psychological injuries inflicted on him.
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“Other workers and journalists subjected to this inhuman treatment by the Police and the Hope Uzodimma’s goons be treated by the State and all the properties lost be restored immediately.
“All the outstanding Industrial Relations issues as previously agreed with the Imo state Government be implemented immediately.”