We are taking the protests to CBN, Major Airports, NNPC, others - Unilag/Mau Students

As the UNILAG/MAU crisis gets worse, Unilag students have threatned to extend their protests to the Ikeja International Airport, Central Bank of Nigeria and the NNPC.

It can be recalled that the students of the varsity have blocked major roads in the first two days of protests, including the ever busy Third Mainland bridge in lagos, preventing free flow of traffic for several hours.

NigerianEye gathered that the angry studnets were chanting anti-Jonathan songs while some bore placards with the inscription "Malu ko Aguntan Ni" “Jonathan is a liar, he must go,” “It’s only Jonathan that will attend MAUL varsity’ and “We hate Jonathan.”

They futher revealed to NigerianEye that their next stage of the protest would be the Ikeja Airport, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company and the Central Bank of Nigeria.

One of them, Martin Awolo, said, “We are going to the airport tomorrow, then NNPC and CBN. We are going to protest at these places. Our plan is to visit all the top organisations in the state. There is no giving up until Jonathan reverses this provocative decision.”

Another student, Mr. Saheed Adebayo, said, “We are going on strike for a month. We don’t care about our studies. Jonathan must not go free. He can’t change the name of our university. The name UNILAG carries weight. We have no business with Abiola.”

A student who identified himself simply as Wale said that students at all the campuses of the university across the state would be mobilised to join them in a sympathy protest.

“We are marching to Idi-Araba, LUTH; we heard that students there are having lectures. No student is to have lecture. We must all join the strike,” he said.

However, some students used the opportunity to destroy and loot items at a filling station inside the UNILAG AP and Total filling station on Herbert Macaulay Way.

A salesman at the TOTAL filling station, who identified himself as Soji, said that the students took gallons of engine oil worth over N10, 000 and also fuelled their cars and bikes with petrol without paying a dime.

He said, “The students came in groups and grabbed me. They were shouting, telling me to fuel their cars and bikes. When I refused, they said they were going to beat me up.”

The students were also seen harassing a female sales girl when she refused to heed their demands. Aside from looting gallons of engine oil and fuelling their cars, the students took soft drinks and snacks from the stations without any payment.