The president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Joe Ajaero has been rushed to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri where he is receiving medical attention.
The NLC head of Information and Publicity, Comrade Benson Upah, disclosed that Ajaero’s right eye is completely shut.
The Nation reports Ajaero was whisked away by the heavily armed operatives at Union’s protest in Imo state on Wednesday.
The update from Upah reads: “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 was beaten up 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.”
