The President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has revealed that it could not carry on with its two-day nationwide protest due to intimidation and threats.
Recall that the NLC and other related unions started a nationwide protest recently over the high cost of living, inflation, insecurity and hardship in the country.
The protesters proceeded to the National Assembly, where NLC President Joe Ajaero presented a letter of demands to President Bola Tinubu, through the leadership of the National Assembly.
Meanwhile, in a communiqué issued at the end of the National Executive Council meeting and signed by its President, Joe Ajaero and General Secretary, Ismail Bello, on the same day the protest started, the NLC suspended the nationwide planned protest.
The NLC felt that the message from the protests was effectively relayed to the government.
However, Ajaero at a recent press briefing said the congress was intimidated and harassed to halt the protest.
He said: “We were threatened with all manners of consequences that would be meted on us if we went ahead.
“We were, however, not perturbed, as lifting the heavy yoke of suffering upon Nigerian workers and masses left us with no option than to press on.”
He said the congress has evidence from the protest of the “importation of agents who were mobilized protest routes and grounds to cause violence against the peaceful protest.”
