NLC President Joe Ajaero Arrested In Imo

While it is no news that there has been raging cold war between the Hope Uzodimma led government and the National Labour leader, today, Wednesday, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

According to Channels TV news flash, “Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination,”

It quoted the Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, as stating this via a WhatsApp message to Channels Television.

The NLC is leading a statewide protest and strike in Owerri over what it described as lack of respect for workers, unpaid salaries, amongst others