Labour leader Joe Ajaero was yesterday interrogated by the police over a ‘suspected terror-tenant’ operating a bookshop on the second floor at the Labour House, headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja.
President Ajaero’s office is on the he 10th floor of the building.
Ajaero was invited to the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Command in Guzape, Abuja, over allegations of terrorism financing, cybercrime, subversion, criminal conspiracy, and treasonable felony.
Although the NLC President had been summoned last week by the police, he wrote to them to allow him honour the invitation yesterday.
Accompanied by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), Labour leaders and activists Marshal Abubakar and Deji Adeyanju, Ajaero arrived at the IRT Command around 10:20am.
After the interrogation which lasted for one hour, Ajaero and his legal team left the IRT office. He, and other Labour leaders were driven to the NLC headquarters in a tinted bus.
The Labour leaders, who had converged on the Labour House as early as 8am, had threatened to embark on strike, if their President was detained.
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Chanting solidarity songs, they advance towards the police unit, where they also organised a prayer session.
Policemen were also deployed in the NLC office where the Labour leaders gathered.
On arrival from the IRT office, Ajaero said he would continue to press for the welfare of the workers, adding that NLC would push for the implementation of the new minimum wage.
He said: “I have gone there and I am back. This is the hazard of the job. We are out to continue the struggle. We have gotten the minimum wage agreed, but we have to press for its implementation. Everything that will make the Nigerian workers to be worthwhile, we will be involved in it.”