Ogunjimi passed away while waiting for the NLC leadership to issue further orders on whether or not the strike should be called off at the state Secretariat of the NLC, which is situated along the MKO Abiola Way in Abeokuta, the state capital.

Ogunjimi was transported for treatment at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Idi – Aba, Abeokuta after slumping at the Lemme Secretariat of NLC, according to a source at the hospital who spoke to LEADERSHIP Weekend. The doctors on duty at the facility declared him “dead on arrival.”

The deceased, a former chairman of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) in Odeda Local Government, was a primary school teacher who actively participated in the five-day-old industrial action that workers had started to press home their demands for better working conditions from the state government.

Prior to his death, the NLC State Chairman, Comrade Emmanuel Bankole had gathered the striking workers and informed them that Friday’s meeting of the union’s leadership with the state government was deadlocked and that members should be prepared to continue with the strike.

Bankole disclosed that he decided to move out of the meeting to address the gathering of workers that the state government was not likely to accede to the workers ‘ demands on the strike, hence he chose to leave the venue of the meeting to address the workers.

The highly charged and enraged-looking comrades, who had earlier claimed that their union leaders had sold out, became uncontrollable when Bankole was speaking to the workers, and as a result, certain facilities at the NLC secretariat were destroyed in the subsequent violence that eventually occurred.

The agitated employees rebuffed a detachment of State Security Service (DSS) officers who had been sent to the NLC State Secretariat in Lemme, insisting that they could manage the matter on their own.