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How DSS Arrested Me As NLC President, Dragged Me On Tarmac – Oshiomhole Narrates

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How DSS Arrested Me As NLC President, Dragged Me On Tarmac – Oshiomhole Narrates

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On Wednesday, Adams Oshiomhole, the senator representing Edo North and former president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), shared a recollection of an assault he endured at the hands of Department of State Services (DSS) operatives during his tenure as the labor leader between 1999 and 2007.

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Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Oshiomhole recounted his experience in the context of the recent attack on the current NLC president, Joe Ajaero, in Imo State. This incident has led to an indefinite nationwide strike that commenced on Tuesday.

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“I had a similar experience… I was on my way to Delta State and I went to the airport,” he said.

“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.”

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He explained that the ultimatum was related to opposing the effort to remove fuel subsidy due to concerns about the potential rise in the cost of living.

“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,” the former labour leader stated.

“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.”

Oshiomhole further mentioned that he found himself in detention after being “taken away” for a duration of two days.

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“[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,’” he said.

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