The Organised Labour has expressed displeasure over Police harassment and intimidation of union leaders, threatening to picket the Police Headquarters and Police stations nationwide if the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, does not end the illegal action.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, raised the alarm over what it described as illegal interference by the Police boss in the internal affairs of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, one of NLC’s affiliates.
NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in a statement recalled that the NURTW had its lawful activities restricted and shackled in Lagos State and other South-West States of Oyo, Osun, and Ondo, despite the pronouncement of the Courts to the contrary.
He also noted that having felt unchallenged and thus invincible, the same forces that forcefully took over the Union in these states and renamed them.
