Photo : NLC Leader Beaten To Coma Now Responding To Treatment ,Recounts Ordeal

Picture: NLC Leader Beaten To
Coma Now Responding To Treatment, Recounts
Ordeal

Ebonyi NLC Chairman Ikechukwu Nwafor who was
rushed to the hospital after police beat him to
stupor in Abakaliki yesterday is now responding to
treatment.

Ikechukwu Nwafor who sustained leg and hand
injuries during the incident, slumped after he was
released yesterday evening by the police and was
immediately rushed to the hospital where he is
currently receiving treatment.

Teargas was sprayed on him, he was beaten up
alongside other 20 labour leaders, thrown into a
police hilux van and taken to the state police
headquarters where he was detained by operatives
of the command. Speaking on his hospital bed
yesterday, Nwafor decried the action of the police,
saying they were treated like common criminals.

He alleged that the labour leaders were
indiscriminately attacked and their bus and phones
confiscated.

“Our greatest surprise was that this team was led by
an Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of
Operations and he was commanding his men to deal
with me, and even when I was on the ground he
was stepping on and hitting me and later ordered
about five of them to lift me and throw me into a
hilux van,” he said.