The Imo State Police Command has said its operatives took the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, into custody after an attack on him.
DAILY REPORT NG reports that operatives of the Command had whisked Ajaero away during a protest in Owerri, the state capital on Wednesday morning.
Ajaero was in the state to mobilize workers for a mega protest rally in the state over alleged violation and abuse of rights and privileges of workers by the State government.
Reacting to the report of the NLC president arrest, the state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Okoye denied police officers arrested him, but he was rather taken into custody following an attack on him.
His statement reads, “Upon receiving this report, the Imo Police Command swiftly deployed police operatives to the scene where the Officer in Charge exercised his operational discretion by taking the NLC President into protective custody at the State Command Headquarters to ensure the protection of his life and that he was not lynched in the scuffle that followed.
“The Commissioner of Police thereafter directed that he should be taken to the Police Medical Services, Owerri, where he would be accorded medical attention as a result of the attack.
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“He has therefore been accorded adequate security cover to proceed on his other legitimate engagements for the day.”
