The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), yesterday blocked all the roads leading to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State.
The action was in continuance of their protest against the seven-month-old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Defying the downpour, the students caused gridlock on the roads, leaving many travelers stranded.
Operatives from the Lagos State Police Command, the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), the Lagos Airport Police Command, and other security agencies were drafted to the scene of the protest to avert the likely breakdown of law and order.
The students occupied the Ajao Estate/Oshodi corridor into the airport with their vehicles, disrupting vehicular and human movements for other people to pass by.
They carried placards bearing different inscriptions, such as: “#EndASUUStrikeNow”; “If you have money for election form, you can fund education”; “Education is a right. Open our schools now”; “No school, no election campaigns”; “We can’t suffer here while the rich send their kids abroad to study and rule us”.
Anxious passengers who realized that they might not be able to get to the airport to catch their flights on time disembarked from their vehicles and resorted to carrying their luggage on their heads as they trekked to the local and international terminals of the airport.
Others told our reporters that they might return home if they could not get to the airport at the time of their flights.
