DSS has denied raiding the Nigerian Labour Congress Headquarters in Abuja.
PoliticalNews Nigeria reviews that the Division of States Service (DSS) has denied allegations suggesting that its personnel carried out a raid on the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) headquarters in Abuja.
This assertion follows claims made by the NLC on Wednesday, which asserted that secret police operatives had invaded their workplace and whisked away sure paperwork.
The union reported that the operatives arrived on the Labour Home at roughly 8:30 PM.
“The safety operatives, some from the Nigeria Police Pressure, some carrying black tee-shirts presumably from the Division of State Companies (DSS), and others on outright mufti swooped on the tenth Flooring of the NLC and arrested the safety operative on responsibility after which commandeered him to the second ground the place he was requested to supply the keys to the places of work.
“When he advised them that he had no such keys on him, they broke into the ground and ransacked the bookshop on the 2nd ground, carting away a whole bunch of books and different publications. The invading troop claimed that they have been on the lookout for seditious supplies used for the#EndBadGoveranance Protests.
“The Nigeria Labour Congress condemns in its entirety this new low in safety operations in Nigeria. The armed safety operatives confirmed no authorized doc letting them invade the premises of the Nigeria Labour Congress within the ungodly hours of the evening.
“Even at the hours of darkness days of navy rule, NLC secretariats have been by no means invaded and ransacked by safety brokers. At the moment is certainly a really unhappy day for our democracy,” stated a press release by the NLC’s head of Media and Public Relations, Benson Upah.
The NLC indicated that it couldn’t shortly decide the total extent of things faraway from its places of work.
However, in a press release issued on Thursday, the DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, clarified that its personnel weren’t concerned within the disruption of the labour union’s workplace.
“Good morning pricey buddies. Pls kindly notice that the Service (DSS) didn’t perform any operation on the NLC workplace in Abuja,” Afunanya stated in a terse assertion on the company’s X deal with.