President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe
Ajaero on Friday said that he was arrested in Owerri by the Police and was
handed over to waiting thugs who got him thoroughly beaten.
He said that the thugs who were about seven in number dragged
him on the floor like a common criminal.
Briefing journalists in Abuja, the NLC president said the
NLC wrote to all the security agencies before they went to the state for the
protest on November I.
According to him, workers who arrived at the venue of the
protest on that day around 7 am were beaten up by thugs with their phones
seized.
Ajaero said he got there around 9 am after he got the report
of an assault on workers, adding that the police arrested him and handed him
over to thugs.
He said: “I can’t explain the beating I received. They tied
my hands and dragged me on the floor like a common criminal.”
The NLC President denied the allegation by the Imo State
government that he is a card-carrying member of the Labour Party.
“I am not a card-carrying member of any political party as
alleged,” he said.
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