President Bola Tinubu-led administration, has started showing its draconian colour following the arrest and brutalization of the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Wednesday.
The labour leader according to Benson Upah, head of information of NLC, was picked up at the state secretariat of the congress and taken to an unknown location by police operatives.
Upah described what happened to Ajaero as an act of abduction that snowballed into attempted murder.
He said that “contact has been made with Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero this evening around 15:30 hours at the Police Hospital in Owerri from where he was taken to Federal Medical Centre, Owerri where he is receiving medical attention.
“Thoroughly brutalized, his right eye at the time of contact was completely shut.”
“Ajaero, who said little stated that immediately after his arrest, he was beaten up and blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination where more brutalisation took place, sometimes with bottles.
“His phones, money and other personal effects were taken off him and have not been returned to him.”