Following the brutalization of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, in Owerri, Imo State capital on Wednesday, the labour leader has been admitted to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri.
He was assailed with dangerous weapons such as broken bottles and he is currently receiving treatment at the facility.
Ajaero may have lost his right eye as it is completely shut, according to the Head of Information and Publicity at the NLC, Comrade Benson Upah.
He sustained the injuries when some “miscreants” reportedly pounced on him and was in the midst of violence whisked away by heavily armed operatives at the union’s secretariat.
Upah said: “Contact has been made with Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero this evening around 3:30 pm 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 brutalization took place, sometimes with bottles.
“His phones, money, and other personal effects were taken off him and have not been returned to him.”
Persecondnews reports that the labour leaders had stormed Imo State to protest backlog of unpaid salaries and sack of workers by Gov. Hope Odidika Uzodinma administration.
He is facing election on November 11 for a possible second term in office.
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