Folalumi Alaran in Abuja
The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has raised the alarm over a plot by some persons and groups to stage a protest at the National Secretariat of the union located in Garki 2, Abuja.
The union said the plan was to infiltrate their ranks by wearing the union uniform and disguised as members to perpetrate their nefarious activities and attack the secretariat and some part of Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The union, which disclosed this yesterday in Abuja in a statement by its National President, Alhaji Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, described the planned protest as a campaign of calumny against its leadership, aimed at causing confusion and fomenting trouble.
He said they have identified those sponsoring the protest and that they were not even members of the union but Lagos, Osun and Ondo States Park Management Committees.
“We have it on good authority that some disgruntled and unscrupulous elements have perfected a plan to mobilise some thugs and hoodlums from Lagos, who put on uniform of the Union as disguise to invade and stage a protest at our National Secretariat here in Abuja.
“I want to tell you that these people are not our members, they just want to cause violence in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). We are using this medium to call on the security agencies to rise up to the occasion and prevent the breakdown of law and order.
“The union has remained peaceful over the years and we don’t have any faction. We know those people that are sponsoring these groups and we are using this opportunity to tell them to steer clear of FCT in their own interest,” the NURTW President said.
He therefore, called on the plotters to desist forthwith just as he called on all the security agencies to rise up to the occasion and prevent possible breakdown of law and order in the city.
