Medical experts at the Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri, are currently battling to save the eyes of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. Ajaero was said to have been arrested by men of the Imo State Police Command while leading a protest in the state on Wednesday. Ajaero was seen in a viral video, sitting between two men while he was being rushed to Federal Medical Centre, Owerri. Upah said, “Contact has been made with Congress President, Joe Ajaero, this evening around 15:30 hours at the Police Hospital in Owerri from where he was taken to Federal Medical Centre, Owerri where he is receiving medical attention. “Thoroughly brutalised, his (Ajeoro’s) right eye at the time of contact was completely shut.”

Source: Punch November 02, 2023 17:57 UTC