BY TONY EDIKE ENUGU
FOR attempting to enforce the nationwide strike ordered by organised labour against removal of fuel subsidy, a labour leader in Enugu State, Comrade Festus Ozoeze, has been arrested by the police, tried by a mobile court and remanded at Enugu prisons.

Governor Sullivan Chime was said to have ordered the setting up of a special court to trial any worker and members of  organised labour found to have violated his order banning public assemblies, meetings and procession in the state.

Ozoeze, who is the Vice Chair of Amalgamated Workers Union in Enugu State Water Corporation, was reportedly arrested, tried by one Magistrate Mba who presided over the tribunal set up by the state government at the premises of the Police CID and sent to Enugu prisons for alleged conspiracy and breach of public peace.

Enugu State Head of Service, Mr. Dennis Eze, who led some government officials to unlock some government offices padlocked by labour leaders, reportedly petitioned Ozoeze alongside Chairman of the Water Corporation, Comrade Timothy Ojielo, and state chairman of his union, Comrade Chris Elibe, accusing them of violating the governor’s order. The labour leaders were said to have been declared wanted by the police.