The Nigeria Labour Congress has written the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, over the shooting of the Edo State Chairman of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Mr. Echichioya Godwin, during the strike called by labour last Wednesday.
The NLC is asking the police to tender an apology to the injured union leader, NUATE and the NLC for the injuries Echichioya sustained while mobilising workers for the suspended strike.
The General Secretary of the NLC, Mr. John Odah, said in a letter addressed to the IG that labour was also demanding compensation and the cost of treatment of the gunshot injury sustained by Echichioya.
A copy of the letter dated November 10, was made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday.
He condemned the shooting of the unionist by a police orderly attached to a High Court judge, stressing that the unarmed man did not make any attempt to assault the judge.
He called on the IG to take necessary measures to ensure that the shooting, which he described as ‘dastardly’, and utterly uncivilised’was redressed without delay.
The letter reads in part, “We wish to bring to your attention the dastardly and utterly uncivilised act carried out by one of your men in the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police.
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