Police and Civil Defence personnel
have go violent in Lafia as they have shot some workers dead around government
house in the Nasarrawa state capital. According to Denja Yaqub, the assistant
general secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) who made the information
available to our correspondent, the incident occurred while workers accompanied
the NLC president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba to meet with Governor Tanko Al Makura.
The NLC leader and his delegation
which includes a deputy president of TUC, Comrade Etafo had gone to meet the
governor who has refused to pay workers’ salaries for several months and the
victims had stayed outside the government house, waiting for the delegation
when the shooting started.
While the meeting with the governor
of the state was ongoing, the security men were said to have opened fire on the
civil servants. The state government and the identified security agencies are
said to be held responsible for these attacks on unarmed workers. As at the
time of filing this report, the number of people who had been killed could not
be ascertained, but the NLC spokesperson confirmed to NAIJ.com that some people
were confirmed dead during the incident.
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