The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has informed its members to be on alert for a nationwide strike over the attack and brutalization of Nigeria Labour Congress, President, Joe Ajaero and other labour leaders in Imo State.
Recall that Ajaero and other leaders of NLC, including their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), and some journalists were on Wednesday attacked by suspected thugs at the NLC secretariat in Owerri.
Reacting to the incident, NUPENG’s President, Prince Williams Akporeha, said: “We condemn with the strongest term the arrest and brutalization of Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero and other labour leaders by the agents of Imo State Government.
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“We reject the act of violence and barbarism being unleashed on labour leaders, workers and others. We cannot accept this uncivilised behaviour in a democracy.
“The workers of Imo State must be freed. We are determined to free the state workers because injury to one is to all.”
