CLO Condemns Invasion Of NLC Headquarters.

The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has expressed shock over the invasion of the Nígeria Labour Congress (NLC) headquarters in Abuja, popularly often called Labour Home, by the lads and officers of the Nígeria Police on Wednesday night time, July 7, 2024.

A press release issued by the chief director of CLO , Comrade Ibuchukwu Ezike famous that the organisation gathered that the indignant trying law enforcement officials clad in police uniforms, mufti and masks like Boko Haram insurgents and bandits stormed the Labour Home within the late hours of Wednesday night time and forcefully broke into NLC‘s bookshop carting away helpful supplies into their ready vans.

Ezike additional acknowledged that its sources disclosed that the police claimed that the carted supplies have been utilized in organising and inciting the protesters who protested in opposition to dangerous governance which kicked off on August 1, 2024, throughout Nígeria.

He condemned in strongest phrases the illegal and conceited method through which the legislation enforcement companies, predominantly the police, invade folks‘s properties and workplaces of Nígerians and organisations at odd hours, even with out warrants like criminals.

“We recall that on August 9, 2009, related remedy was visited on the CLO at its 13, Soji Adepegba Shut nationwide Headquarters on Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos.

“Our workplace was illegally sealed for one 12 months with our key workplace supplies, laptops, books and undertaking amenities carted away until a court docket order vacated them from our premises.

“Until date, the police have defiantly refused to obey the judgment of the court docket that ordered them to pay CLO compensations and return its stolen property.

“Additionally, below the lawless Muhammad Buhari regime, police, DSS, EFCC and different repressive establishments of coercion and terror have been used to terrorise, intimidate and coerce judicial officers and different women and men of impeccable, sturdy characters to submission.

“We maintain that it’s an abuse of democratic course of for a authorities that was elected by the folks to show round and use its establishments of coercion to oppress its residents.

“It’s unbelievable that Presídent Bola Tinubu who has protested in opposition to each army and civilian regimes earlier than 2015 can resort to this unlawful use of state machineries to threaten and abuse the rights of the natives. We demand that the police return carted NLC property directly and tender an apology to them this flagrant and heinous act.

“In related method, CLO warns the Federal Authorities of Nigeria to avoid the Russian Flag controversy within the aftermath of the #Endbadgovernance protest by releasing all these detained for armlessly flying Russian Flag in some components of Nígeria.

“We additionally urge the Authorities to drop the Proposed felony fees in opposition to the suspects and finish the case in that approach, particularly as we’ve not discovered part of our Structure that criminalizes the flying of different nations‘s flags in Nigeria.

“Furthermore, Russia has denied any involvement within the flag matter. Nígerian authorities ought to, due to this fact, permit the sleeping canine to lie as our nation doesn’t have the capability to have interaction in any confusion that will culminate in each human and materials losses.

“Let our sturdy army and different safety companies divert their consideration and energies to combatting insecurity threatening Nígeria and go away the Russian Flag matter alone. In our considering, too, Tinubu Authorities ought to focus its minds, power, would possibly and intelligence extra on how you can handle the stinking corruption within the system, starvation, poverty, insecurity and subsidy disaster threatening our nation and folks earlier than Nigerian youth would return to the protest.

„These are the issues of the CLO and all patriotic Nígerians, at the very least, for now,“ he acknowledged.