The leadership of Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike over the brutalisation of the President of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, and some of his colleagues in Imo State about two days ago.
Speaking on the development, according to Punch, the President of NUPENG, Prince Williams Akporeha, said that the union condemned with the strongest term the arrest and brutalization of Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, and other labour leaders by the agents of Imo State Government, and that they rejected the act of violence and barbarism being unleashed on labour leaders, workers and others.
He also warned that NUPENG members could not accept sure uncivilised behaviour in a democracy.
In continuation, he said that the workers of Imo State must be freed, and that they were determined to free the state workers because injury to one is to all.
