The Police in Imo State have been accused by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) of brutalising its President, Joe Ajaero, leaving him hospitalised.
Ajaero was arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital after he was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination.
The Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, in a statement on Wednesday said Ajaero has been released by the police but revealed that the NLC President is currently hospitalised.
He also alleged that Ajaero was severely beaten after being arrested by operatives of the Imo State Police Command.
“Immediately after his arrest, he was beaten up and blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination where more brutalisation took place, sometimes with bottles,” the statement read.
“Contact was made with Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero this evening around 1530 hours 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. His phones, money and other personal effects were taken off him and have not been returned to him.”
Watch the video of the beaten NLC President here:
