Nigeria: Labour Crisis - Threat to Shut Down Enugu Laughable- Govt

1 November 2011

Enugu — Enugu State Government, Monday, dismissed as laughable and mischievous, claims by the coalition of human rights and pro-democracy groups in the South-East zone that it was behind the current travails of Comrade Osmond Ugwu who was remanded in prison custody by the state Magistrates Court last week for attempted murder.

The government also dismissed as uninformed and ill-thought, the threat reportedly made by the group to "make Enugu State ungovernable" if Ugwu was not released from prison custody within one week.

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