The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Nigeria, has condemned, in strong terms, the resort to hooliganism and the deployment of brute force as instruments of trade dispute resolution in Imo State.
ASUP equally condemned the reported “roles of complicity by the Nigeria Police, who have failed to provide the needed
protection to protesting workers and property of the organised labour in the state.”
In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Abdullahi Yalwa, ASUP stated, “We demand the swift intervention of the President of the country in this regard.
Identification and prosecution of the persons involved and a purposeful resolution of the issues in dispute between Imo workers and the state government”
It added that “We are in undeniable solidarity with the Comrade President of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, and other workers who were victims of the attack by the hooligans and Imo workers for the trauma which they have been subjected to by the events of November 1, 2023.”
“ASUP Nigeria shall be awaiting further directives from the organs of the NLC on this matter,” it further stated.
In the press statement titled ‘Brutalization of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero: A New and Unacceptable Low in Industrial Relations in Nigeria’, ASUP stated that the Union has been closely monitoring reports from Imo State as it affects the planned protest by the leaderships of the NLC and TUC over the conditions of Imo workers in Imo State.”
“Our Union is aware that the protest, which is a legitimate and globally recognised instrument of expression in civilised climes, had the endorsement of the appropriate organs of the NLC and took its roots in the serial violations of outcomes of a series of engagements between the Imo State Government and organised labour,” ASUP stressed.
The Union declared that it is therefore shocking to read reports of attacks and brutalization of unarmed workers and the leadership of the NLC to the extent of causing bodily harm to our protesting comrades who were only expressing their constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of association and expression.”
According to the National Publicity Secretary of ASUP, “These fundamental rights are the anchors of democracy globally, and Imo State and Nigeria cannot be exceptions. It is equally ironic that Imo State is one of the states involved in the off-cycle governorship elections in the country scheduled for November 11, 2023.”
ASUP further stated that it is depressing to read reports of the active involvement of functionaries of the state government as well as reports of the complicity of the Imo State command of the Nigeria Police in this show of shame.”
“This indeed marks a new low in industrial relations in the country and is reminiscent of the years of totalitarianism during different regimes of military dictatorship in the country,” it added.
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