EndBadGovernance: NLC fumes as security agencies allegedly invade Labour House

The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has raised alarm implicit the reported penetration of its bureau by information agencies.

It called for the contiguous withdrawal of national authorities equipped information agents from the Labour House.

The labour national successful a connection signed by Comrade Benson Upah Head, Media and Public Relations and shared connected its authoritative X grip connected Wednesday, claimed that a unit of heavy equipped information operatives invaded the Labour House located astatine Central Business District, Abuja.

DAILY POST reports that the gathering serves arsenic the National Headquarters and Secretariat of the NLC.

NLC’s connection claimed that the information operatives, immoderate from the Nigeria Police Force, immoderate wearing achromatic tee-shirts presumably from the Department of State Services (DSS), and others connected outright mufti swooped connected the 10-floor of the gathering and arrested the information operative connected work and past commandeered him to the 2nd level wherever helium was asked to nutrient the keys to the offices.

“When helium told them that helium had nary specified keys connected him, they broke into the level and ransacked the bookshop connected the 2d level carting distant hundreds of books and different publications.

“The invading unit claimed that they were looking for seditious materials utilized for the #EndBadGoveranance Protests,” it said.

The NLC condemned the onslaught which it described arsenic the caller debased successful information operations successful Nigeria.

It said, “The equipped information operatives showed nary ineligible papers permitting them to invade the premises of the Nigeria Labour Congress successful the ungodly hours of the night.

“Even successful the acheronian days of subject rule, NLC secretariats were ne'er invaded and ransacked by information agents. Today is so a precise bittersweet time for our democracy.”

The labour said that having condemned government’s actions against EndBadGovernance protesters, what it did not spot coming was the penetration of its location by masked and heavy equipped information operatives.

“In the airy of the foregoing and the ominous motion it portends for antiauthoritarian rights, state of code and relation and the unimpeachable close of citizens to protestation peacefully connected immoderate contented they consciousness powerfully about, we telephone connected the planetary assemblage to instrumentality enactment of the deterioration of antiauthoritarian principles successful the bid to crook Nigeria

into a Police State.

“Given the acquisition of the enactment of the NLC successful caller times astatine the receiving extremity of the bare brute unit of the state, particularly the adjacent daylight assassination of the NLC President by information operatives and thugs, our fears of a Nigerian authorities that is descending into enforced brutality are good founded.

“We fearfulness that the concern mightiness deteriorate. Given the authorities of things, the Nigeria Labour Congress has directed each its unit to enactment distant from the Labour House for present until we are definite that determination are nary incriminating materials oregon harmful substances dropped successful our offices by the invading operatives. In bid to allay our fears, we request an planetary enquiry into this precise traumatic invasion.

“Finally, we request the contiguous withdrawal of the unit of invading information agents from the premises of the Labour House, Abuja.

“We besides request that each the books and materials carted distant by the invading information operatives should beryllium returned unfailingly to wherever they were taken from earlier the extremity of enactment tomorrow, 8th August, 2024.

“We marque this request fixed the illegality of the cognition arsenic determination was nary tribunal bid for the invasion, ransacking and looting of the publications. If this harassment continues, the Nigeria Labour Congress volition not hesitate to telephone connected its members to enactment location until their information and information are assured.

“We pass that the asphyxiation of the nationalist abstraction and channels for constructive engagement, dialog and negotiations successful airy of the excruciating difficulties that Nigerians are going done close present would lone marque matters worse. A stitch successful clip mightiness inactive prevention nine,” it added.

EndBadGovernance: NLC fumes arsenic information agencies allegedly invade Labour House