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The court-recognised President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, and six others loyal to him person been arrested by operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Josephine Adeh, explained successful a connection issued connected Monday that the bid received a distress telephone reporting that astir 300 individuals, equipped with cutlasses, bottles, bows, and arrows, had stormed the NURTW office on Sapele Street, Garki II, Abuja.
She said the accusation indicated that the equipped men were removing items from the NURTW premises, triggering unit arsenic different factional person resisted the effort to instrumentality implicit the facility.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer said that successful a swift response, the Deputy Commissioner of Police successful complaint of Operations, DCP Isyaku Sharu, led a effect squad to the scene.
According to her, upon arrival, it was learnt that Baruwa and his radical “were attempting to enforce a tribunal bid on...
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