The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria on Monday ordered their affiliates to withdraw their services nationwide from midnight on November 14, 2023.
TUC President Festus Osifo disclosed this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday.
Osifo said the strike would remain until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibility.”
The strike is also to protest the battering of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, and some other executives of the congress in Owerri, Imo State, on November 1, as well as the pending labour issues in Imo State.
Ajaero was brutalised on November 1 by persons believed to be thugs and policemen upon arrival in Imo ahead of a state-wide protest.
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Ajaero, while recounting his ordeal in the hands of the thugs, said: “God must have taken extra time to create me because of the kind of beating I received.”
Ajaero also said he was arrested by the police and quizzed for several hours without regards to his condition.
Although the police denied arresting Ajaero, stating that he was merely taken into protective custody to prevent a mob attack, the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma accused the labour leader of meddling in the political affairs of the state.