Rights Organizations Ask Tinubu To Investigate Arrest, Ill-treatment Of NLC President

Amnesty International and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, have called on the President Bola Tinubu-led government to investigate the incarceration and cruel treatment meted out to the President of Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, in Imo State on Wednesday.

The organizations in separate posts via their official X handles demanded that President Bola Tinubu’s administration should make sure that the perpetrators of the attack on the labour union president face consequences.

They called on Tinubu to investigate the ordeal of the NLC president in the hands of men of the Imo police command.

“The Nigerian authorities @officialABAT must investigate the arrest and degrading treatment of the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Mr. Joe Ajaero, who was — today — beaten and blindfolded by the police @PoliceNG in Owerri Imo State,” a post by Amnesty International read.

On its part, SERAP asked Tinubu to identify and arrest those responsible for the arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment of the NLC president

“The Tinubu administration must immediately identify, arrest and bring to justice those responsible for the arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment of NLC President, Joe Ajaero. Authorities must allow Nigerian workers to exercise their human rights. This impunity must stop,” SERAP in the post said.

Naija News recalls that Mr Ajaero was arrested by men of the Imo State Police Command while leading the protest of the Imo state chapter of the labour union against the government of Imo state.

Mr Ajaero, who was allegedly brutalized during his arrest, was later hospitalized following his ordeal in the hands of Imo State Police Command officers.

The command, however, denied maltreating the NLC president, claiming that it just put Mr Ajaero into preventive custody in response to suspicions of plans to attack the union’s president.