NASU Rejects Claims Police Rescued President Of NLC, Ajaero
NASU Rejects Claims Police Rescued President Of NLC, Ajaero
Meanwhile, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has rejected claims that operatives of Imo State Police Command rescued president of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero from mob action, insisting that the Police claims do not hold waters.
While condemning last Wednesday’s attack on Ajaero, NASU rejected the claims that Ajaero was kept under “protective custody” in his own interest, and urged President Bola Tinubu to order a thorough investigation into the attack and brutalization of Ajaero and others.
NASU in a statement by is General Secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi, recalled that Ajaero was attacked in Imo on November 1, when he went to the South-East on official duty over alleged anti-labour practices by Imo State government.
Adeyemi said the attack on the union leader was “a violation of trade union rights as well as the human rights of Ajaero.
“The rights, which Ajaero was exercising in Owerri as the leader of the working people of Nigeria, is guaranteed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 Constitution (as amended), and International Labour Organisation, ILO, Conventions.
Adeyemi, who is also the deputy president, Public Service International, PSI, accused the Imo government of unfair labour practices.
“The government hasn’t paid salaries and pension; it is not right to attack workers union leaders asking why these monies have not been paid.
“Ajaero was on a solidarity visit to the workers in Imo and should not have been visited with tendencies “which were common in Nigeria only during military regimes.
‘’NASU rejects the claims that Ajaero was kept under protective custody in his own interest. We urge President Bola Tinubu to order a thorough investigation into the episode.
‘’Such intervention would give trade unions the assurance that a clampdown would not be their lot whenever there is a dispute between government and labour,’’ he said.
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