Strike: Passengers stranded at Ibadan airport

Some passengers trying to committee flights from Ibadan airport, Alakia to Abuja were, connected Monday, stranded owed to the nationwide onslaught embarked upon by Nigerian workers.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the main entranceway of the airdrome was nether fastener and key, portion nary vehicular question was allowed into the airdrome premises.

NAN besides reports that the chopper carrying the Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Kayode Egbetokun, was billed to onshore astatine the airdrome connected Monday morning, with the Commissioner of Police successful Oyo State, Adebola Hamzat, scheduled to invited him.

However, Hamzat’s convoy, which was astir denied entree to the airport, was aboriginal allowed successful to prime the I-G.

Speaking with NAN, 1 of the stranded passengers astatine the airport, Mrs Bolanle Ehinfun, said the onslaught should person been prevented by the Federal Government due to the fact that the organised labour had fixed them capable time.

Ehinfun, a retired banker, said that she had been astatine the airdrome since 8 a.m., saying that she spent astir N10,000 connected her proscription to the place.

“Now, they are saying the formation is cancelled owed to the onslaught and this volition outgo maine different N10,000 to spell backmost home.

“I person besides spent N5,000 connected feeding astatine the airdrome earlier they announced the cancellation of the flight.

“Government is not considering the masses,” she said.

Ehinfun, who noted that the onslaught had disrupted galore businesses, said authorities should person considered the accusation of the concern enactment and forestall it.

Also speaking, 1 of the passengers who preferred anonymity, said she was going to Abuja for a training-the-trainer programme connected Citizens’ Mobility and Mortality successful Nigeria.

The rider said that the programme could not commencement due to the fact that helium was the maestro trainer and could not go.

He said though the organised labour had a constituent connected their demands for the caller minimum wage, they should not person unopen down the airdrome and different indispensable services.

“The N60,0000 minimum wage projected by the national authorities is excessively small; adjacent N100,000 is small,” helium said.

According to him, President Bola Tinubu is trying but the authorities governors are not helping matters by not utilizing the resources coming to their to amended the lives of the masses.