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NLC opens up on police fresh invitation to Ajaero
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed it’s dissatisfaction with a second police invitation extended to its President, Joe Ajaero, and General Secretary, Comrade Emmanuel Ugboaja.
The labour union has described the move as an attempt at intimidation and a blatant witch-hunt by state authorities.
The police, in a letter signed by CP Rufus Alajide on behalf of the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Force Intelligence Department, stated that the latest invitation was part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of criminal intimidation, malicious damage to property, and conduct likely to cause a breach of public peace.
In response, Comrade Benson Upah, NLC’s Head of Information and Public Affairs, reaffirmed the union’s commitment to lawful conduct.
“Labour is a law-abiding organisation, and the president and the general secretary, who have been invited, are also law-abiding citizens,” Upah stated.
He dismissed the accusations against the union leaders, asserting that, “This is a clear case of witch-hunt and intimidation using the institutions of the state.”
Upah expressed concern over what he perceives as a deliberate agenda to target and silence the NLC. He pointed to the repeated invitations and a recent raid on the NLC office as evidence of this campaign.
“This invitation, coming on the heels of the last one, clearly suggests a manifest intent by the state; it is so obvious. Those who were initially in doubt can now see that we never acted in breach of the law,” Upah said.
He condemned the raid as “a violation of our rights and an act of impunity intended to scare, harass, and intimidate.”
Despite the mounting pressure, Upah assured that the NLC would not succumb to intimidation.
While he refrained from outlining the union’s next steps, he made it clear that the harassment would not go unchallenged.
“Even if we are in a police state, this harassment cannot continue indefinitely. I want to assure you of this,” he said.
The fresh summons comes shortly after Ajaero had complied with a previous police invitation over allegations including criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion, and cybercrime.
The repeated actions have drawn criticism from labour unions and civil society organisations, who argue that the government is “determined to silence dissenting voices within the labour movement”.
Famous American actor, Denzel Washington has revealed he has Nigerian ancestry.
The ‘Gladiator II’ actor disclosed that his heritage test shows that he is 90 per cent Irish and 10 per cent Nigerian.
Washington spoke in a recent interview with British-Nigerian media personality, Ada Enechi.
“I am 10 per cent Nigerian and 90 per cent Irish,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Denzel Washington has hinted at retirement.
The 69-year-old thespian disclosed during a press tour of his latest movie ‘Gladiator II’ in Australia that ‘Black Panther 3’ is one of his last films before retirement.
He said he would be retiring after shooting ‘Black Panther 3’, ‘Othello 2’ and ‘King Lear.’
About 20 suspected criminals arrested for various crimes across Osun State, including three suspected highway armed robbers, were on Friday paraded by the state police command.
Presenting the suspects to journalists, the spokesperson for the police, Yemisi Opalola, said the armed robbery suspects, Olajide Kareem (28), Mike Emmanuel (33), and Godwin Emmanuel (23) were arrested along Osu/Ilesa road.
Opalola said the suspects, during their operations robbed many people of their jewelries, phones cash, and other valuables.
She added that during one of the robbery incidents, a bus driver was shot in the leg, while a female passenger was raped by one of the suspects.
Also paraded was Emmanuel Anthony, accused of using military uniforms to rob passengers along Ekiti road, where he forced a victim from Esa Oke, to transfer a sum of N3m to his account.
Anthony was also accused of robbing other people of their mobile phones valued at N1.25m.
Seven other suspects arrested for conspiracy, armed robbery and receipt of stolen vehicles, were also paraded.
Four northern states of Gombe, Bauchi, Benue and Plateau have been thrown into darkness, due to a fault on the 330kV double circuit transmission lines of Ugwuji-Makurdi-Jos.
The states are among the franchise area of Jos Electricity Distribution Company.
According to the Head of Corporate Communications, JEDC, Friday Elijah, the tripping of the lines occurred in the afternoon on Friday, resulting in the loss of power supply on all the 33KV feeders.”
He disclosed that the Transmission Company of Nigeria engineers were working to rectify the fault.
“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the fault is rectified and power supply is restored back to normalcy,” said Elijah.
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