Police to grill Ajaero, NLC scribe Ugboaja on Sept 5

The Police have served fresh summon to the Nigeria Labour Congress President, Joe Ajaero, and the General Secretary, Emma Ugboaja. The duo was asked to appear at Force Headquarters on September 5, 2024, over alleged criminal breach of trust and other sundry allegations without specifics

The fresh summons is coming less than 24 hours after Joe Ajaero honoured the Police’s invitation over alleged criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion, and cybercrime.

The summon letter indicated that the NLC President and the General Secretary would ‘interview’ the Deputy Inspector General of Police in-charge f FCID on charges bordering over alleged criminal intimidation, conduct likely to cause a breach of public peace, and malicious damage to properties.

Ajaero, who was invited by the police to address allegations of terrorism financing, cybercrime, subversion, criminal conspiracy, and treasonable felony, yesterday honoured the police invite in a meeting that didn’t last more than one hour. He arrived at the IRT office at 10:17 a.m. and left shortly after 11:15 a.m.

He was accompanied by human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN), activist Deji Adeyanju, and other senior NLC officials.

Speaking to journalists at the Labour House after leaving the police headquarters, Ajaero asserted that the NLC remains committed to defending the rights of Nigerian workers and will not be cowed by any form of intimidation.

“We can’t be intimidated,” he stated emphatically. “The allegations against us are baseless, and we have nothing to hide.”

 

The fascist @officialABAT regime is really using the @policeng to turn the Nigerian country into a "POLICE STATE," this must be vehemently resisted; they've now extended their harassment beyond the NLC president but gone further to ask that he brings his Secretary Joe Ugboaja for… pic.twitter.com/zOlodier1d

— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) August 30, 2024