President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, has urged workers and Nigerians to discountenance some online reports that Wednesday’s mass protests have been called off.

Ajaero stated that, “we have no reasons to call off the planned protest. If we suspend or call it off, you will know. I can tell you that the mobilization is very high.”

His comment was made after NLC held its rescheduled meeting with the Federal Government Steering Committee on Palliatives at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.

The organized labour had on Monday insisted on going ahead with its planned protest over the removal of petroleum subsidy and other government policies which was dubbed anti-people.

NLC had expressed doubts about President Tinubu’s ability to control inflation and gasoline prices due to the unification of exchange rate.

Speaking thereafter, Ajaero said the plan by workers to proceed on a peaceful protest from Wednesday has not changed.

He dismissed fears that the peaceful protest could be hijacked by hoodlums, saying that such had never happened in the history of workers protest.

However, he said it is the responsibility of security agencies to provide security for the protesters to protect the workers.

However, reacting to Tinubu’s plan to intervene on exhange rate over inflation and high cost of gasoline prices, Ajaero said, “by the time you have a single market and you are not having anything that has a comparative advantage, your energy is import driven, then how are you going to control it?

“How are you going to control somebody that exchanged dollar at about N900? Are you going to tell him to sell below the price?

“How are you going to tell even NEPA today, with the cost of production not to increase tariff? Even corn in the villages that was sold at N18,000 by February, now it’s about N56,000. How are you going to control that?”