 The president of Nigeria Labour Congress, Joa Jiro, has been arrested in IMO as the state police command confirms he is in protective custody and 70 corpses, skeletons uncovered near Abiyakatun market. I am Bola Oba and this is plus politics. IMO state police command have confirmed that the president of Nigeria Labour Congress and LC, Joa Jiro, is in protective custody. The command spospers in Okoye Henry, medicine known in a statement, reports emerged that Jiro was picked up from the NSC state council secretary at Inowari, the state capital by heavily armed policemen and taken to an unknown destination. As a result, the organized labour put workers in a lot for immediate nation reduction if the arrested president is not released by the end of today, Wednesday. The NSC and the Trade Union Congress, you see subsequently issued a statement shortly after Jiro's arrest accusing the governor of IMO state, Opus Odima and the IMO state commissioner police abducting the NSC leader. Actually he has thus far been released joining us to discuss this live NSC deputy general secretary and chief of staff to the NSC president Chris Unyeka. How are you today? Were you also one of those who were allegedly manhandled at the very today? Are you literally there? Are you physically there? The question I just asked you is that in so much as I am not disputing what you are stating to be the fact, I am also asking were you physically present there? Okay, I just want to be sure about that. One would ordinarily have thought, oh, Jiro is supposed to be functioning in Abuja. How come he was in a worry this morning and somebody like you who is ordinarily speaks to functioning in Abuja? How come you people were in a worry this morning? Chris, there is another side that says the non-NLC state chairperson that indeed the Christianization of Nigeria, you people not to bother to come because the state NSC chair has claimed that he had an arrangement or the leadership of the NSC in the state has an arrangement with the government on how workers owed are paid and how prisoners are paid. Is that true? That is not true. I will tell you. Chris, you have made that point. Let's go to another very important question. Chris, you know that in 10 days time there will be a gubernatorial election in a more state. How come that the leadership, the national leadership of the NLC has so turned this strike to be around this electioneering campaign season when the NLC, the same chairman, the same president of NLC in this political season has openly portrayed himself to be a Labour Party partisan and one of the strongest candidates in the emo gubernatorial elections is said to be the Labour Party candidate. Don't you see some form of conflation, conflict of interest and indeed it is even said, I don't know how far that is true, that Ajair himself is from emo state. So it is like he does not only have a dog in the fight but is using every resource at his disposal to work his dog against the dog that he believes he does not want to be reelected. How would you respond to that? I think that this issue that has led to this one and that may become another one of these political issues. We have to think of one of these issues. We have to think about the rise. We may be stronger than Ajair. We are one who believes that there should not be a line of discretion, a line of a line of circumspection between playing the role of the Labour leader of the biggest labour centre or labour movement in Nigeria relative to being seen as a partisan openly supporting a particular candidate and a particular party. You don't see any conflict of interest there? I know Chris. He just made me realise now that the incumbent governor of Kirby State was formally a Labour leader and that the people won the extra money to go and campaign for him. So were you in emo state this morning using the pretext of fighting for workers to campaign for your candidate in the emo governorship election? I use the word. I think we campaign for that government. We are here. I think we started a match. You are making sense. You are making sense. You are making sense but the tough questions. The tough questions. Chris, when you people were having your strategy session which I know you must be part of, why didn't some of you in leadership just put in that word of caution? You know what? Elections will be taking place soon in that place. It could be misconstrued. Our playing, our traditional role could be misconstrued as a partisan. Hello back room. I just saw the picture of Baisal Badi now. Is he on the phone? Okay. Chris, I can understand how you feel and I really, really taking speaking outside my clock as a journalist who has a duty to perform. I really empathize with you and your colleagues in the noble leadership. I am one as a political democrat who believes that the forces of coercion in the state should not be deployed against the citizens of the state. But having said that, I also have a duty to let you know, Chris, that it does seem to somebody who is non-partisan and who is dispassionate from the emotions of the movement, it does seem that those of you who are in the noble leadership, they deliberately quoted the Ferrari that happened this morning for a particular objective which could be said to be partisan. How would you respond to that? Even if it is not a particular objective, it is not allowed to say how about it. Where does that implement it? And even if it is not that, that they allow this, what interests me, they protect me. Let this be something very clear. They are on the ground. That does it in the course. We have movements that they have not implemented, they have been implemented. None of these, they do not ask me to act that in the course, that they have not implemented it. Chris, there is a general perception out there that Commander General is a bit too predisposed to combating, that is combating, is aggressive, is abrasive. He seldom wants to solve a problem by reasoning out solution or by being value innovative. That he just prefers that he has a tendency. Okay, next slide to worry, we will get it there and you know, it particularly cherishes a scenario like the one unfortunately that happened this morning. How would you respond to that? I may be laughing really loud about that. Because it is in terms of diplomacy, we have extended all these branches of this government. In terms of dialogue, that is what we do. In terms of how we do, it is this government that has refused to dialogue. In the US here, there is a government that has refused to dialogue. Very very clear, this government has a feature of US violence. Because they must not be against it. By the government, it has made it out of the present. Has it been the teachers that have received the teachers, that were broken? Because the other people were broken. The phones that were taken away by this government. And you are in the detail of questions with this government. And I told the government, I tell you absolutely, people are misleading you. We don't have any business with you, except what is written here. Please, it remains the same. We don't have any business with you. Okay, please. Please. Please. Please. It is only woman for me at this juncture that we have to wrap up. It is only woman for me to ask, is the NRC president okay? I hope it is not in any critical medical condition. The NRC president has a real issue. But we have to take him to federal medical center. We need to reach the source on his neck and on his body. The police. I know that you deliberately told us that one of the reasons why you can't really do another visual interview is because you are also in a bad shape. I really feel for you. And I empathize with you guys. And the democratic history of Nigeria will ultimately remember you well. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We go for a short break. I want to come back. We go for the second session.