Death threat: Imo labour leaders apologise to Okorocha over false alarm
The leaders of organised labour, in Imo State, on Thursday, tendered an apology to Governor Rochas Okorocha over false allegation of death and kidnap threat against them by the state government.
Daily Times reports that labour leaders in the state had raised an alarm over their safety and that of their immediate family members, alleging that the State Government was plotting to kidnap them for prevailing on the state civil servants from signing an undertaking form issued to them by the government.
At a meeting at Government House, in Owerri, with Okorocha, the State Commissioner of Police and the State Director of the Department of State Security Services (DSS), it was denied that their personal safety was not under any threat from the state government.
According to them, they fabricated the allegation to give the workers the impression that they were being haunted by the state government.
The Chairman the State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Austin Chilakpu, who had earlier reported that he does not stay in his home any more after his driver was abducted by gunmen who stormed his home in a government vehicle, on a cross examination by the security Chiefs, denied that no such incident happened.
He therefore, apologised to Okorocha to forgive the union leaders and allow peace to reign.
Okorocha who was visibly angry over by the development, threatened to probe the matter to bring those behind the plot to ridicule his administration to book.
He said, “I will take this matter seriously because you people have made me look like a kidnapper. Some of them said that they were no longer sleeping in their homes because they were receiving text messages that they will be killed because they were working against the state government. But, today even those that said that their drivers were kidnapped came out to deny it. They were just out to tarnish my image”.
