The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero.
Ajaero was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS), on Monday, September 9.
According to reports, he was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way to the United Kingdom for an official assignment.
Ajaero was billed to attend the Trade Union Congress (TUC) conference in London.
Demanding Ajaero’s release in a post via its official X handle, the NLC said, “we demand the immediate release of NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, immediate implementation of the new national minimum wage, immediate reversal of the price of petrol, reversal of illegal hike in electricity tariff.”
It would be recalled that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) had invited and interrogated Ajaero over allegations of terrorism financing, cybercrime, subversion, criminal conspiracy, and treasonable felony.
He was invited in the wake of a night raid by the police on the NLC national secretariat in Abuja.
The police are investigating a possible link between the labour leader and a Briton, Andrew Wynne.
Wynne was accused of financing the recent #EndBadGovernance or #Hunger protest in the country to allegedly overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu.
Following Ajaero’s first appearance on August 29, the police, in another letter signed by the Commissioner of Police, Operations, Ibitoye Alajide, on behalf of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Intelligence Department, Abuja, asked him to appear again on Thursday, September 5, alongside with the NLC General Secretary “to answer questions over alleged criminal intimidation, conducts likely to cause a breach of public peace, and malicious damage to property.”
The letter read: “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 featured, you are requested to come along with 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.”
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