Nigeria: NLC Condemns Police Over Rivers Crisis

21 January 2014

Apparently worried by the alleged police insensitivity in Rivers State, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that unless the police authorities carry out a thorough investigation into the incessant clash between the police and the public in the state, the good works of the inspector general of police would be eroded by the activities of the police commissioner in the state, Mr Joseph Mbu.

The NLC vice president, Comrade Issa Aremu, who is also the general secretary, National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), stated this at a press conference in Kaduna yesterday, adding that the police must discharge its duties with fairness and justice. He described as a welcome development the inspector-general of police, Mr M.D Abubakar, order of a full-scale investigation into the incident in Rivers State in which the police was alleged to have shot a serving senator, Magnus Abe and allegedly killed three children, at a planned rally.

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