Following the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, organised labour has put workers on alert for an immediate nationwide strike if the NLC president is not released by the end of Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

New Telegraph had earlier reported that Ajaero was arrested in Owerri, the capital of Imo State at the NLC state secretariat.

The operatives of the State Police Command picked him up during a protest by workers in Imo State over an alleged “serial and habitual abuse and violation” of their rights by the state government.

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He was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination.

In a joint statement issued by the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) shortly after Ajaero’s arrest, the Labour unions accused the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma and the Imo State Commissioner of Police of abducting the NLC leader.

Asking the workers to be on alert for immediate action, the Organised Labour said workers could not be at work while the NLC President was in the gulag.

The Organised Labour said that Uzodimma must be called to order by President Bola Tinubu “to avert what he has chosen to turn the state into – a den of thugs and bloodsuckers.”

See the full statement below: