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NLC leaders stole workers’ salaries during invasion — Abure
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, says
the Joe Ajaero-led Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and those they led to picket
the party’s national secretariat stole money meant for payment of staff
salaries, among other valuables during Wednesday’s attack.
Speaking for the first time since the invasion of the
party’s secretariat, Abure described the action of the labour leaders as a
shame and act of rascality.
In a statement signed on his behalf by the party’s National
Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, in Abuja on Thursday, the National Chairman
said, “What we saw was a show of shame, a show of rascality, an abuse of office
and an abuse of the law of the land.
“Nigeria Labour Congress is subject to the law. NLC under
Joe Ajaero is not above the law and the law precludes Ajaero and the leadership
of NLC to take laws into their hands, where they besieged the office, broke the
fence, destroyed the gates, unlawfully took possession of the secretariat and
destroyed properties worth millions of naira.