Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, has been taken into custody by agents of the Department of State Services.
Ajaero was detained on Monday morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja while traveling to the United Kingdom for a formal assignment.
The president of the NLC was scheduled to attend today’s opening of the Trade Union Congress convention in London.
The NLC confirmed the news in a post shared on its official X Twitter, claiming that Ajaero’s detention is an attack on Nigerian laborers.
It says, “The attack on workers from Nigeria is still ongoing.” Joe Ajaero, the president of the NLC, was detained at the NSA headquarters after being taken and kidnapped by DSS agents this morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja when he was traveling to a TUC United Kingdom official engagement.
“This assault and intimidation must end!”
Recall that Ajaero was invited and questioned by the Nigeria Police Force about accusations of financing terrorism, cybercrime, subversion, criminal conspiracy, and treasonable felony.
Following a police raid on the NLC national secretariat in Abuja throughout the night, he received an invitation.
The authorities are claiming a connection between the Labour leader and Andrew Wynne, a British national who has been charged with funding the nation’s most recent #EndBadGovernance or #Hunger demonstrations, which are intended to topple President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
After Ajaero’s initial appearance on August 29, the police requested that he and the NLC General Secretary appear again on Thursday, September 5, “to answer questions over alleged criminal intimidation, conducts likely to cause a breach of public peace, and malicious damage to property,” in a second letter signed by the Commissioner of Police, Operations, Ibitoye Alajide, on behalf of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Intelligence Department, Abuja.
The letter said: “You are requested to accompany Comrade Emmanuel Ugboaja for an interview with the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Intelligence Department, FID, through the undersigned, at SPO’s Room 112, 2nd Floor, Force Intelligence Department (FID) Complex, Shehu Shagari Way, opposite Force Headquarters Area 11, Garki, Abuja on Thursday, 5th September 2024 at 11 am, in furtherance of investigations into the alleged case of criminal intimidation, conducts likely to cause breach of public peace, and malicious damage to properties in which your name appeared.
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