The police in Borno has stopped members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) from demonstration in Maiduguri against economic hardship and inflation in the country as declared by the union.
Commissioner of Police, Mohammadu Lawan Yusufu who led top police offices including his deputy and assistant commissioners as well as dozens of anti-riot policemen in the command to the NLC State Headquarters early Tuesday, blocked the road leading to the labour house.
Addressing crowd of agitated protesters at the Labour Union, state chairman, Comr. Yusuf Inuwa said the union leaders earlier met with the Police Commissioner to allow workers march from the Labour House at least to the city centre, about a kilometre away.
“I was invited to Police Headquarters at about 12:30am for questioning but I couldn’t go. So this morning I met the governor who had also called us.
“The governor pleaded with us. He said he is not going to stop us from what we want to do but he wants us to do it peacefully.
“This morning, we asked the commissioner of police but he said we have to maintain status quo otherwise their mandate is to seal up our Secretariat as they did in Abuja and Lagos,” the NLC chairman disclosed.
However, many of the protesters interrupted him, insisting the police bruised their freedom of expression.
“Nobody can stop us from expressing ourselves. We won’t listen to them. Enough of their fake security reports,” some of the protesters shouted as the crowd surge toward the police barricade outside the NLC Secretariat.
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