Oshiomhole
As NLC leader under Obasanjo, DSS dragged me on airport tarmac -Adams Oshiomole
Senator Adams Oshiomhole, said operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, dragged him on airport tarmac under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as leader of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.
Oshiomhole was comparing the manhandling and beating by suspected thugs of the current NLC President, Joe Ajaero, in Imo State, which led to a nationwide strike of two days.
Oshiomhole said, ”I had a similar experience… I was on my way to Delta State and I went to the airport.
“The then director of SSS ordered that I should be arrested and stopped from travelling because we had given an ultimatum to the then Federal Government headed by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“They dragged me on the tarmac and I had my cuts all over the place. They forcefully prevented me from flying and took me back to the DSS director general’s office — then Col. [Kayode] Are.”
He recalled, “He offered to take me to their own hospital and I said, ‘No, I can’t even trust a government that has inflicted this kind of wound on me to treat me. They might as well poison my blood.’ I said I wasn’t going to do that.”
According to him, “[For] at least 48 hours, the NLC couldn’t locate me. When eventually I was let out, the bandage on my arm with the blood and all that, I told my colleagues, ‘This blood would rather reinforce and whet my appetite for the struggle for justice.”
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