Nigeria Labour Congress president Joe Ajaero, has accused the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police of trying desperately to pin a crime on him.
Mr. Ajaero who was narrating his experience after being arrested and detained by the DSS said he was being unduly harassed and intimidated by government security agencies over his opposition to inhumane government economic policies.
Ajaero was picked up by the DSS on his way to the UK for official matters. This was after he was invited and interrogated by the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police.
‘’The DSS also interrogated me and took my statement. I do not know why they have to embarrass me publicly like that,” Ajaero said.
“The same IRT operatives in whose office we were on August 29, 2024, alongside Mr Femi Falana, came and asked the same questions I was asked in the previous meeting with them.
“They asked about the operator of the Iva Valley Bookshop on the second floor of NLC secretariat building.
“They asked me whether we had communicated on the phone, whether he (the Iva Valley operator) communicated with me in writing and so on.
‘’They also asked if I knew the protesters (#EndBadGovernance or #Endhunger), especially Eleojo Opaluwa, a staff of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE. I told them I knew him because I employed him at NUEE.
“They equally asked about the Labour Party, LP, whether we are running the party. I told them we do not run the Labour Party, but that we are a trustee of the party.
“I also told them that the Labour Party they see today was founded when Adams Oshiomhole was President of NLC.
“Also, they asked about the issue of Air Peace which we had settled since last year.
“It is like the security agents are searching for evidence on how and what to nail us with. That is why they have continued to embarrass, persecute, intimidate and do whatever they liked to cow us.”
