Their was a reported on Wednesday night, which the NLC condemned and blamed on police operatives and suspected officials of the State Security Service (SSS).
The police have admitted that police operatives raided an office inside the NLC headquarters building in Abuja.
The police, however, said the labour union was not the target of the raid.
“The Nigeria Police Force wishes to clarify that a prime criminal suspect in an ongoing investigation was traced to a shop within the building in the Central Business District, Abuja,” police spokesperson Olumuyiwa Adejobi wrote.
PREMIUM TIMES reported the Wednesday night raid, which the labour union condemned and blamed on police operatives and suspected officials of the State Security Service (SSS).
The SSS, however, denied any role in the raid.
The police claim that it raided only a private facility in the building tallies with PREMIUM TIMES findings on Thursday.
The part of the building raided was on the second floor of the multi-story building owned by the labour union. It is believed to house a private bookshop owned by a foreigner.
NLC officials had insisted that the raid was an affront to the union as the bookshop is housed in the union’s building.
NLC General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, who recounted to PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, that the raid occurred shortly after the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting the previous day, expressed concerns about the SSS’s focus on the 10th floor.
He wondered why the entire floor could be associated with the individual allegedly being sought by the operatives.
The offices of the NLC President and the general secretary are on the 10th floor.
He explained that the security operatives came after they had left the NEC meeting and held the security guard at gunpoint.
“They came at night after we had left. The security guard was held at gunpoint and forced to open the tenant’s office on the 2nd floor,” he said.
Mr Ugboaja said that NLC staff were now apprehensive about returning to work because of the raid.
In a statement released earlier on Wednesday night, NLC spokesperson Benson Upah accused the security forces of searching for “seditious materials” related to the #EndBadGovernance protests.
The union decried the heavy-handed approach of the raid, describing it as an attack on their headquarters.
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