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The Head of Information and Publicity of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Comrade Benson Upah has described the reported abduction and brutalization of the NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Wednesday, as attempted murder.
According to him; “contact has been made with Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero this evening around 15:30 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”.
Upah disclosed that: “Ajaero, who said little stated that immediately after his arrest, he was beaten up and blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination where more brutalisation took place, sometimes with bottles.
“His phones, money and other personal effects were taken off him and have not been returned to him.”
