Schools Handover: Oyo NLC Chairman Arrested

Report reaching POLIFOCUS has it that the State Chairman of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Waid Ologede has been arrested and detained in the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Iyaganku Police Station, Ibadan. 

He and some of his executives are cooling their heads behind bars at the moment and have been placed in a state of incommunicado. They were arrested earlier today. 

This is an insult to the offices they occupy. When investigated why they were arrested, the reason might not be unconnected with the peaceful protest embarked upon by the labour leaders yesterday during a stakeholders meeting at Agodi gate. 

The Nigeria Police which from all indications are acting the script written to them by Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who was said to have been bittered as to how the protest brought the meeting to a close abruptly. 

The labour leaders were said to have disrupted the arrangement due to the anti-people educational policy of the governor. The union made it crystal clear that it opposes selling or handing over of schools to religious organisations.

The body opined that it will take education miles away from the reach of the have-nots and average citizens. 

Our leaders should be carrying the leads along in whatever they plan to do.

But the big question is...  Did the governor lock up the labour leaders to prove a point of supremacy or a reward for being loyal to him and his administration?

It will be recalled that the governor is owing a lengthy backlogs of salaries and arrears and till now workers are yet to down tools.

Let's keep our fingers crossed as the season film continues....... 

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