LASU Students Go On Rampage, Block Vehicular Movement

It seem the last has not heard of the crisis
rocking Lagos State University (LASU) as
students yesterday June 9 took over Badagry
and Iba expressways blocking vehicular
movement, The Sun reports.
This current protest is coming of heel of the
contention between the institution's
management and staff unions as the 48-hour
ultimatum issued by the student expired..
The student union mouthpiece, Adebanjo Fatai,
stated thet decision to of the student to take
to the street was taken after a meeting held
yesterday morning.
The protest brought to halt commercial
activities around the area and the campus. It
also caused heavy traffic leading to
commuters to disembark and continue their
journeys on foot.
The police deployed 11 police vans and
armoured personnel carrier and stationed it
at the Badagry Expressway gate of LASU to
prevent the situation from turning violent.
The protesting students started the protest at
about 10.55am and was peaceful. However
commuters and motorists were forced to wait
in the long queue that extended up to Agric
Bus Stop towards Mile 11 and the Iyana Sasi
end of Badagry.
The students, led by their President, Adeyemi
Onikoro, used articulated trucks to block the
Badagry Expressway. Pleads by the area
commander fell on deaf ears as the angry
students continue with their protest.
Some of the protesting students turned the
Badagry Expressway into a football pitch, while
others chanted anti-Lagos State songs.
Onikoro stated that the students wanted
Governor Akinwunmi Amobode to intervene in
the crisis rocking the school following the
sudden postponement of the 2nd semester
examinations by the management of the
institution and seven-month-old crisis between
the staff unions and the management
The students' union Fatai spokesman said the
protest was a warning to Governor Ambode to
address the issues in contention.
" We have written about seven letters to the
governor on these issues without positive
result.We are using this blockade to send a
signal to Ambode. We cannot tell what will
happen tomorrow, we will go back and re-
strategize on the next line of action. The
governor must attend to the demands. We
used this protest to let people know what we
are going through in LASU, '' Fatai warned
It will be recalled that the students' union had
at press briefing in Ikeja issued a 48-hour
ultimatum to the institution management to
revert the postponement of examination .