The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Council, TUC, have urged President Bola Tinubu to call Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo to order, following violence that visited members of the workers’ unions in the state.
Early hours of Wednesday, the NLC President Joe Ajaero was picked up from the Congress State Council Secretariat by heavily armed security operatives in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination.
While condemning the incident in a joint statement, the NLC and TUC general-secretaries, Emmanuel Ugboaja and Nuhu Toro respectively, lamented that the governor had turned the state into a den of thugs and blood suckers.
“Hope Uzodimma must be called to order by the President and Commander in chief of the Armed forces to avert what he has chosen to turn the state into – a den of thugs and blood suckers,”
The unions, therefore, vowed to press on until the government listens to the demands of the workers.
“We will press on with our engagement as trade unions until the Government listens to the demands of the workers.
“The Governor should not be deluded into thinking that today’s violence will stop our resolve and determination to save the workers of Imo state.
“It has rather encouraged us to organize more so that we will engage him more creatively and effectively,”
The unions further described Mr Ajaero’s arrest and detension as unacceptable.
