Scores of vehicles, including those carrying top government officials, armed escorts, business guests, and numerous Nigerians, were blocked from entering the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the the organised labour union
According to reports, the National Labour Congress (NLC) commenced the protest, blocking the entrance and causing a standstill in vehicular movement.
Build-up of stranded air passengers could be seen over a distance of about four kilometers to the airport gate as at 9:15am.
“NLC people are protesting, they have blocked the entrance and there is no way of moving forward at all,” a police escort who was in a Hilux pickup vehicle that turned backwards after being unable to press towards the gate told the Nation.
GOOD EVENING NIGERIA reports that the NLC had declared strike will commence November 8 (today), in response to attack on Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Imo State, last week.
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, gave condition for which the strike can be averted, including the immediate redeployment of the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Barde.
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“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, the union demanded,” among others.
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