NUPENG has threatened to down tools over the attack and brutalization of Joe Ajaero and other labour leaders by perceived agents of the Imo State government.
It could be recalled that some thugs allegedly descended on Labour leaders and other protesters, smashing vehicles, inflicting injuries and dispossessing handsets, money, ATM cards valuables from labour union leaders and that gathered at the NLC Imo State secretariat to begin a scheduled protest over unresolved labour issues.
The President of the NLC, Ajaero and other leaders of NLC and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), some journalists, and other innocent citizens were among those attacked and brutalized on Wednesday by thugs suspected to have been contracted by the state.
The NUPENG’s President, Prince Williams Akporeha, while reacting to this brutality, threatened to call for a nationwide industrial action if the Imo state government does not release the arrested labour leaders and address the grievances of its workers.
Akporeha said “We condemn with the strongest term the arrest and brutalization of Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero and other labour leaders by the agents of Imo State Government.
He said the Union would not accept such uncivilised behaviour in a democracy while calling that workers of Imo State must be freed. “We are determined to free the state workers because injury to one is to all.” He declared.
