Comrade Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Friday, said that he was arrested in Owerri by the Police and was handed over to waiting thugs that got him thoroughly beaten.
He said that the thugs who were about seven in number dragged him on the floor like a common criminal.
NLC president told journalists at a press conference that the NLC wrote to all the security agencies before they went to the state for the protest on November I.
According to him, workers who arrived at the venue of the protest on that day around 7 am were beaten up by thugs with their phones seized.
Ajaero said he got there around 9 am after he got the report of an assault on workers.
He said: “I can’t explain the beating I received. They tied my hands and dragged me on the floor like a common criminal.”
The NLC President denied the allegation by the Imo State government that he is a card-carrying member of the Labour Party.