AMBODE DECLEAR TODAY WORK FREE DAY AHEAD OF BUHARI'S VISIT

AMBODE DECLEAR TODAY WORK FREE DAY AHEAD OF BUHARI'S VISIT

---- Air passengers groan as police block routes to Lagos airport.

- Major routes to the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, Lagos, have been
blocked ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the state

- Passengers on their way to the airport complained that the roadblock is a source of inconvenience to them

- They also said that the development is an
infringement on citizen's rights.

Key routes leading to Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, were blocked on Thursday, March 29,
owing to expectation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit.

Three years into his presidency, President Muhammadu Buhari finally
makes an historic visit to Lagos .

The president will be in the state on a two-day official visit on Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30.
The blockade was a cause for worry to travellers, with some walking about two
kilometres to get to the airport so as not to miss their flight. Premiun times
reported that as at 5am near the General Hospital Ikeja, many armed police
officers were positioned at Olowu bus stop to prevent the movement of vehicles.

Some passengers who spoke described
the development as an infringement on people’s fundamental rights. One of such passengers, Beauty,
complained: “This is not funny again, how can they shut the whole place down when the president’s flight is 11:30 a.m., this is
wrong.” Another passenger, Sam
Ehigiamusoe, who is to fly from Lagos to Abuja, also decried the situation.

He said: “How can Lagos State Government decide to lose money because
a president is coming and how can a president allow his people suffer like this.”

Meanwhile, Roseline Oguh, a passenger who intends to travel from Lagos to Uyo, said the inconvenience is unbearable.

She complained: “This is not palatable at all. I left my house 4 a.m., but trust
Nigerians, they will always find a way around it.”

Meanwhile,  the Lagos state government had declared Thursday, March 29, a work free day in
the state ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari ‘s two-day visit to
the state.

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