- The Imo Police Command has swiftly deployed operatives to protect the NLC President from a scuffle, ensuring his life and safety.
- He was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen and taken to an unknown destination
Comrade Joe Ajaero, the brutalised President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has been transported to the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owerri, with his right eye completely shut.
Comrade Benson Upah, the NLC’s Head of Information and Publicity, described what occurred to Ajaero as an abduction that devolved into attempted murder.
He said that “contact has been made with Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero this evening around 15:30 hours at the Police Hospital in Owerri from where he was taken to Federal Medical Centre, Owerri where he is receiving medical attention.
“Thoroughly brutalized, his right eye at the time of contact was completely shut.”
He further said, “Ajaero, who said little stated that immediately after his arrest, he was beaten up and blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination where more brutalisation took place, sometimes with bottles.
“His phones, money and other personal effects were taken off him and have not been returned to him.”