Joe Ajaero
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has confirmed that officials of the Department of State Service (DSS) arrested its national president, Joe Ajaero.
This Nigeria news platform understands that Ajaero was arrested in Abuja, on Monday by DSS officials.
According to NLC’s statement on Monday afternoon, the arrest of Ajaero was targeted at muzzling Nigerian workers from seeking their rights and demanding accountability from the government.
The statement explained that Ajaero was on his way to the United Kingdom for an engagement with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of the UK.
It added that DSS arrested the NLC President at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, in Abuja. It further revealed that Ajaero has been detained in the office of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.
“The assault on Nigerian workers continues, the President of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero was arrested and abducted by the men of DSS at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja this morning on his way to attend an official engagement of the TUC United Kingdom and he is now detained at the office of the NSA,” the brief statement on NLC’s X handle read.
Recall that the NLC president had been invited by the Police on an alleged case of terrorism.
The Nigeria authority under President Bola Tinubu has been accused of muzzling rights groups by an international human rights organization, Amnesty International.
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