*Pix above: NLC officials
Heavily armed security personnel have raided the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abuja.
According to the union, the operatives stormed the Labour House, its headquarters at about 8:30 pm on Wednesday, August 7, 2024.
The NLC’s statement signed by the head of Media and Public Relations, Benson Upah said; “They broke in and ransacked the bookshop on the 2nd floor carting away hundreds of books and other publications.
“The invading troop claimed that they were looking for seditious materials used for the #EndBadGoveranance Protests.”
The NLC is not immediately able to ascertain all the things taken away from its offices.
The raid, which was carried out six days after the #EndBadGovernance protests started, has been blasted by the union. The NLC also demanded the immediate withdrawal of the security operatives from its headquarters.
“The Nigeria Labour Congress condemns in its entirety this new low in security operations in Nigeria. The armed security operatives showed no legal document permitting them to invade the premises of the Nigeria Labour Congress in the ungodly hours of the night,” the NLC said.
“Even in the dark days of military rule, NLC secretariats were never invaded and ransacked by security agents. Today is indeed a very sad day for our democracy.”
Recall that hundreds of Nigerians had on Thursday, August 1 hit the streets in some states and the Federal Capital Territory to protest against rising cost of living in the country.
However, the protest took a different dimension when some persons started calling for regime change.
Russian flag was flown in different parts of the country, forcing President Bola Tinubu to summon heads of security agencies to Aso Rock, where he ordered them to crackdown on those threatening democracy in Nigeria.
After the directive, the DSS and other security agencies conducted a series of raids and arrested dozens of persons.
No fewer than seven Polish were arrested in connection with the use of foreign flags in the protest in Kano.(agency)/###
