The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday alleged an invasion of its headquarters by security men, who carted away some publications from its library.
It further said those who carried out the raid on Wednesday night were policemen, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), and another unnamed security outfit. It added that most of them wore black T-shirts.
The DSS denied involvement. But the police kept mum.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command referred our correspondent to the Force Headquarters.
But many calls to police spokesman DCP Olumuyiwa Adejobi went unanswered. He also did not reply to the SMS sent to him.
The NLC in a statement said: “A team made up of heavily armed security operatives invaded the Labour House, Central Business District, Abuja, which serves as the national headquarters and secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
“The security operatives, some from the Nigeria Police Force, some wearing black T-shirts, presumably from the Department of State Services (DSS), and others on outright mufti, swooped on the 10th floor of the NLC, arrested the security operatives on duty, and then commandeered them to the second floor, where they were asked to produce the keys to the offices.
“When they told them that they had no such keys, they broke into the floor and ransacked the bookshop on the 2nd floor, carting away hundreds of books and other publications. The invading team claimed that they were looking for seditious materials used for the #EndBadGovernanceProtests.
“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. 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…”
