To protest the failures of the Federal Government to meet the demands of Academic Staff of Universities Union (ASUU), members of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) carried out their threats to disrupt flights at the nation’s airports.
The students who arrived at the NAHCO junction along Ajao Estate – Murtala Muhammed International Airport expressway at about 7am on Monday condoned off the road leading to the international terminal wing and tollgate link of the airport with their vehicles, singing solidarity songs.
The students were however very orderly and peaceful while they maintained that no vehicle would be allowed to pass through the blockages on the airport’s access roads.
A team of security operatives led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police Airport Command, DCP Sunday Kayode and Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Commandant, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, were seeing appealing to the students to maintain peace while carrying out their protest.
Also at the General Aviation Terminal, (GAT) of the airport, the, National Chairman of African Action Congress (AAC) and former President, NANS, University of Lagos, Omoyele Sowore who silidarised with the protesting students, urged them to remain peaceful and nonviolent as they push forward their agitation.
Sowore who dressed in a black suit without his usual yellow beret or emblem, later departed the domestic airport terminal in a red golf car.
A leader of the protesting students, Afeez Babateye assured the security officers that the protest would remain peaceful as long as they are not molested by security operatives.
However, many passengers whose vehicles were denied assess to the Lagos airport terminals, were seeing trecking to the terminal carrying their pieces of luggage on their heads while some dragged them on.
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