The attack on the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ (NURTW) national secretariat in Abuja’s Garki 2 has prompted further anxiety from the union.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the NURTW alleged that there is an illegal plot by some leadership of the South West States Park Management Committee to cause chaos at its head office in Abuja in a statement that was jointly signed by the president, Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, and general secretary, Anthony Asogwa Chukwudi, on Monday in Abuja.
The transport workers asserted that the group intended to cause trouble and wreak havoc on the FCT residents by disguising itself as a protest against the just concluded 10th Quadrennial National Delegate Conference of the union held in Lafia Nasarawa State on Wednesday, August 23, 2023.
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They said that the National Secretariat will be invaded on August 28th by the gang, who claimed the planned protest was part of a campaign of defamation against the union’s leadership, and that the group had already imported thugs to finalise their plans.
The statement said, “The National Union of Road Transport Workers have uncovered the plot by the leadership of Park Management Committee from the South West to attack the National Secretariat of the union in Garki 2 and cause breakdown of law and order in the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT ).
“We learned that they plan to disguise as aggrieved members of the union and stage a violent protest to perpetrate their nefarious activities, attack people in the FCT, and destroy property at the secretariat.
“They have mobilized some thugs and hoodlums into Abuja and held a meeting at a hotel in Wuye on Saturday.
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“We are using this medium to alert the general public to watch out. These people are not our members; they want to cause violence in the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT ). We are using this medium to call on the security agencies to rise to the occasion and prevent the breakdown of law and order.
“The group is being led by the former President of the Union, Alh. Najeem Usman Yasin, Tajudeen Badaru Agbede, Isah Aliyu Ore, James Umem, Clement Adekola, Joel Nkor, Shuaibu Bello, Musa Waziri, Alh. Alhassan Haruna ( 313 ) and Kayode Agbeyangi.”
However, the transport workers urged the protest’s organisers to cease and retract their plans while also urging security forces to act quickly to avert a potential breakdown in law in the region.
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