The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has berated the Nigeria Police Force and Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha over Thursday’s shooting of a medical consultant with the Federal Medical Centre Owerri, Bede Azudiaro, during a protest march by the Imo State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
The NLC said that the shooting of the medical doctor is a pointer to the rising degree of intolerance for alternative view point by Gov. Rochas Okorocha. “We at the Nigeria Labour Congress condemn this bestial and despicable act in its entirety. Even in wars without rules, medical doctors and other health workers enjoy the singular distinction of protection and preservation by combatants on either sides. For the police to therefore fire live ammunition at peacefully-protesting doctors asking for their legitimate rights runs counter to any known rule of engagement,” said the NLC. Adding that the shooting of the medical doctor, who is lying critically ill, is not an isolated case but part of a growing terror culture instituted by Governor Okorocha, alleging that in the past two weeks alone, his armed militia had beaten a medical doctor at Uboma Hospital to a state of coma as well as brutalized several others.
 

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