Some details have filtered in pointing to the direction on why Comrade Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), was arrested by operatives of the Department of the State Services (DSS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.
Information pieced together by Forefront News indicated that Comrade Ajaero was arrested on Monday following his refusal to honour invitation extended to him by the DSS over an alleged case of extortion against him.
It was gathered that the Service is of the firm believe that no individual is above the law and the state thus, every citizen must be seen to respect and be obedient to the laws of the land and institutions created to enforce the law irrespective of position or status in the society.
Further checks indicated that the Nigeria Police Force also extended another invitation to the NLC President over a petition by one of the airlines operating in the country, but for which Ajaero failed to honour.
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force had in August, invited Ajaero for questioning over alleged case of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion, and cybercrime.
The NLC President only honoured the first police invitation after one week and was made to write a statement and allowed to go home on self-recognizance, but turned down the second invitation by the police.
The operatives of the Nigeria Police had in August during the nationwide protest against hunger, raided the NLC headquarters, located at the Central Business District of Abuja following which the NLC first alleged that it was the DSS that invaded their building.
It took the Nigeria police three solid days to own up through a statement saying that its operatives were the ones that raided the NLC Secretariat in search of a Briton, Andrew Wynne, who operates a Bookshop within the NLC building.
Before the admittance by the police over the raid, the NLC had alleged that it was the DSS that stormed its building with hooded men wielding guns.
Similarly, sources within the security circle confided on our Reporter that the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), equally invited Comrade Ajaero to shed more light over the case of a Briton, Andrew Wynne, who is being accused of sponsoring terrorism in the country for which the NLC President ignored and failed to honour.
