Posted by Sade Williams
Members of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), on Monday blocked all roads leading to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos in protest against continued strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The student as early as 7 am, blocked the Ajao Estate – Murtala Muhammed International Airport expressway and condoned off the road leading to the international terminal wing and tollgate link of the airport with their vehicles, singing solidarity songs.
Passengrs were seen carrying their luggage and talking to the both terminals of the airport as their vehicles were at a stand still.
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.
