Ogun Labour Crisis: 580 WEMPCO workers allegedly evicted at gunpoint
The petition also challenged the alleged deployment of armed police personnel, maintaining that the Receiver/Manager had no court order authorising police officers to forcibly evict the workers.
Specifically, they asked the minister to act under Section 17(b) of the Trade Disputes Act, which, according to the petition, empowers the minister to refer a trade dispute directly to the National Industrial Court where reference to an arbitration tribunal would not be appropriate.
According to the petition, the alleged incident occurred on June 9, 2026, when a Receiver/Manager appointed by the Federal High Court in a suit involving United Bank for Africa Plc and WEMPCO allegedly arrived at the premises of several companies accompanied by “numerous heavily armed Police personnel.
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