BREAKING: "Why We Raided NLC Complex", Police Finally Open Up
- The police have revealed the reason why its operatives invaded the second floor of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Abuja last Wednesday, August 7
- Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the spokesperson of the police, said there was a suspect plotting to sabotage Nigeria's democracy
- According to the police boss, the suspect is on the second floor of the complex and not the 10th floor, which is the office of the NLC headquarters
FCT, Abuja - The Nigeria Police Force has finally disclosed that it raided the second floor of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) complex in Abuja on Wednesday, August 7.
According to the police spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the operation was to search for incriminating documents to establish a suit against an international subversive element threatening Nigeria's democracy.
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Police clarify raid on NLC office
Adejobi made the revelation while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, August 7, nothing that the NLC complex was harbouring a suspect on the day of the operation in one if its floors.
According to the police chief, the second floor of the complex was being used by the suspect and not the 10th floor, which is the NLC headquarters.
Adejobi's comment reads in part:
“We recovered evidence to prove that the suspect is a threat to the nation. The man is a suspected subversive element."
NLC accuse police of illegal raid
The NLC had alleged that armed security personnel raided its headquarters in Abuja last Wednesday, taking documents. The incident was widely condemned by human rights groups, including Amnesty International.
However, the police spokesman claimed that the raid was unrelated to the recent #EndBadGovernance protests and was instead connected to a landlord-tenant dispute involving a global suspect whose syndicate members have been arrested.
According to Adejobi, a forensic investigation of the suspect has commenced, and the labour union would be needed in the probe. He noted that the suspect had claimed multiple identities, including being a Briton and a Russian.
Police take action on one million march
Legit.ng earlier reported that the police and other security agencies in the country have been mobilised in their hundreds to major cities in Nigeria
This is as the organisers of the ongoing hunger protests in the country announced a plan to stage a one million-man march across the 36 states of the country, and the FCT
The protest, which started on Thursday, August 1, is expected to end on Saturday, August 10, with the one million-man march
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