- The secret police had earlier in the day arrested Ajaero at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said the Department of State Services, DSS, has rendered its National President, Joe Ajaero, incommunicado.
The fearsome secret police had earlier in the day arrested Ajaero at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
Ajaero was about to depart the country for the United Kingdom on the invitation of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, of Britain, when he was nabbed and whisked away by the DSS.
In a statement by NLC Spokesman, Benson Upah, the Labour union said it has not been able to reach Ajaero and does not know his whereabouts since he was arrested.
A statement issued by Upah reads partly: “Comrade Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has been detained by the Nigerian government, the organs of the Congress has convened a closed-door meeting whose outcome will be made available to the public.
“This morning, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, was seized and whisked away by agents of the Nigerian State while on his way to the United Kingdom on the invitation of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Britain.
‘Comrade Ajaero was set to attend and address the global gathering of workers on behalf of Nigerian workers at the Congress of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in the UK, a platform where critical discussions on workers’ rights, social justice, and economic fairness are discussed.
“We are yet to ascertain his whereabouts or his state of health as all efforts we have made to get in touch with him have proved abortive.
“We wish to categorically state that Comrade Ajaero has been detained without any legal warrant or formal instrument. Joe Ajaero is not a fugitive.”
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