Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has spoken out following his suffering at the hands of Imo State Police Command officers.
The NLC president described his suffering at the hands of Imo State Police Command personnel, describing how the state Command physically abused him. He had swollen eyes in the now-viral video.
“Ah they beat me oh, God must have taken extra time to create me,” Mr Ajaero said.
Hours after the Nigerian Police denied detaining the NLC president, he made his announcement.
According to Imo State Police Command Spokesperson Okoye Henry, there were rumors of a planned mob attack on the union leader, which prompted the police to place the NLC president under preventive detention.
However, the Nigerian Labour Congress insisted that Mr Ajaero who was whisked away by men of the Imo State Police Command was brutalized by elements of the state.
The police statement came after the labor union threatened to shut down the nation should the police fail to release its national leader.
News About Nigeria recalls that NLC organized a protest march in Owerri on Wednesday, in response to the state government’s purported insensitivity to the state’s workers’ predicament.
Men from the Imo State Police Command in Owerri arrested Ajaero soon after the protest started. Ajaero had traveled to Imo on Wednesday morning to emphasize the demands of the State’s irate workers.
The union spokesperson claimed that soldiers from the State Command had beaten the union president before taking him to an unidentified location.
But when the information was made public, there was a fury that prompted groups like Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Projects and Amnesty International to condemn the attack and call for the union president’s instant release.
