Joint Action Front Secretary and veteran labour activist, Comrade Abiodun Aremu, is dead.
He reportedly died on Sunday after being hit by a vehicle in a suspected hit-and-run incident near his home in Ota, Ogun State on Sunday evening. Aremu, popularly known as “Aremson,” was said to be returning home from an outing.
Sources said he was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was confirmed dead.
Aremu, a well-known Marxist organiser, socialist thinker, was one of Nigeria’s most consistent voices in the struggle for social justice, workers’ rights and national liberation.
He was the Secretary of the Joint Action Front (JAF), a coalition of pro-labour civil society groups, and a leading figure in the Amílcar Cabral Ideological School Movement (ACIS-M).
He had been at the forefront of several nationwide protests against fuel price hikes, corruption and anti-people policies.
His death has sparked an outpouring of grief across the Nigerian labour and civil society community.
