The President of the National Union of Avenue Transport Team (NURTW), Tajudeen Baruwa, used to be granted bail by an Abuja Justice of the Peace Court on Thursday.
Naija Data understands that Baruwa used to be reportedly granted bail by the court docket after the Nigerian police secretly arraigned him on Thursday.
Recall that the NURTW President, three national officers and 21 utterly different individuals of the union had been arrested by the police over a clash between factions of the union recently.
They had been arrested on Wednesday, September 13, following an invitation by the FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba and later detained at the home of labor of the disbanded Particular Anti-Theft Squad (SARS) situated in Guzape.
However on Friday, 15 September, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) knocked the federal authorities for supporting the faction of Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo) and demanded the quick unencumber of Baruwa and the others.
The NURTW Performing President, Kabiru Minjibir, in the assertion, accused the police of descending so low to take aspects, after utterly different faction had performed a daylight coup d’état in the union.
The NLC expressed fear relating to the movement of the police in releasing Alhaji Tajudeen Badru Agbede, chief of utterly different faction, after staging a violent attack on the union’s secretariat.
On the different hand, on Thursday, 21 September, Baruwa and the others had been granted bail from an Abuja Justice of the Peace Court.
In step with SaharaReporters, it used to be reliably gathered that the police had secretly taken them to court docket with the hope of remanding them in jail custody, but they had been at closing granted bail.
This platform understands that the information of their arraignment and what they had been charged for are tranquil sketchy, but the Court reportedly adjourned the case until October 20, 2023.