{"id":353544,"date":"2021-05-18T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=353544"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:55:25","slug":"kaduna-protests-no-form-of-attack-intimidation-will-stop-us-nlc-vows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=353544","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna protests: No form of attack, intimidation will stop us &#8211; NLC vows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said it will not be intimidated by attacks from thugs in carrying out their lawful procession against the Kaduna State government on mass disengagement of staff in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy President of the NLC, Mr Ameachi Asugwuni said this while reacting to attacks by thugs on peaceful protesters on Tuesday in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>Asugwuni alleged that the attack was to distract protesters from their legitimate rights of actions toward bringing the government to order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thugs used weapons and threw stones on our peaceful protesters, as I speak to you now, we have taken some of them for treatment resulting from serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue with the warning strike and protest, the injured ones will be treated and will continue the struggle heavily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d As a matter of fact, the sponsor or sponsors only made us more determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only and best way to addressing issues is engagements and dialogue, using violence to address issues of industrial related matters will not yield results,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further urged youths in the state to refrain from being used as instruments to unleash violence, as the consequences would fall on them in the long run, NAN reports.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said it will not be intimidated by attacks from thugs in carrying out their lawful procession against the Kaduna State government on mass disengagement of staff in the state. The Deputy President of the NLC, Mr Ameachi Asugwuni said this while reacting to attacks by thugs on peaceful protesters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2658,3945,218,4448],"class_list":["post-353544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-a","tag-elrufai","tag-kaduna","tag-nlc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/353545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}