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Opc Stages Anti-boko Haram Protest In Lagos by Nobody: 7:20am On Dec 09, 2011
Members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) yesterday caused a stir in Lagos as they marched on the city.
They were protesting against the general insecurity in the country, especially the terrorist activities of the Boko Haram (Western education is sin), OPC leader Dr Frederick Fasehun said.

The socio-cultural organisation’s members who turned out in a large numbers –estimated to be almost a thousand – marched from the old toll gate through Ojota, Maryland, Ikorodu Road and Ojuelegba to the National Stadium where the procession terminated with a rally.

As they marched on the major highway, they brandished guns and other weapons. They shot sporadically into the air, causing panic and fear among pedestrians and motorists.

The long procession was trailed by a long convoy of vehicles inside which some of the OPC members sat, according to eye witnesses.
The traffic build-up on the eight-home Ikorodu Road extended to other parts of the city, disrupting movement.

At Maryland, the OPC members had an encounter with some officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) and some policemen who refused their attempt to drive against the traffic. Again, there was shooting by the OPC members.

Some motorists abandoned their vehicles and fled because they mistook the OPC men for armed robbers. The ensuing confusion aggravated the traffic chaos.

Dr Fasehun told our reporter on the telephone that the march was “to protest against all those things that are distasteful to Nigeria, including insecurity, unemployment and terrorism”.

He denied that his men shot intermittently into the air.
“We started from the toll gate and ended the procession at the National Stadium. We held a rally to protest the inability of the government to address some issues of national importance that we raised in the past.

“There was no shooting anywhere and they did not have an encounter with anybody,” he chief stressed.
The co-ordinator of the organisation Gani Adams, disassociated himself from the procession.

In an SMS, he said: “This is to inform the general public that we are not part of the mayhem going on in 7UP-Ojota-Ojuelegba axis.
“The so-called protest/rally does not have my support.”

Lagos police spokesman Samuel Jinadu declined to speak on the rally.
But a Senior Police Officer said the protest was peaceful and that the OPC men merely called for the end to Boko Haram’s bombings and the stoppage the terrorist activities.

Also yesterday in Lagos, three persons were feared dead, as factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), battle for control of the motor park at Mafoluku-Airport Road.

Many others were injured. The clash, which grounded traffic on Airport Road, lasted for some hours as hoodlums from Mafoluku-Oshodi, stormed 7and 8 Bus Stop, on the road, in a bid to take over the park.http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/29197-opc-stages-anti-boko-haram-protest-in-lagos.html
Re: Opc Stages Anti-boko Haram Protest In Lagos by EkoIle1: 7:22am On Dec 09, 2011
Stale gist
Re: Opc Stages Anti-boko Haram Protest In Lagos by Nobody: 7:22am On Dec 09, 2011
Panic is everywhere. I thought they fought together during the war. The moment they set foot on eastern soil, we'll show them what we are made of.
Re: Opc Stages Anti-boko Haram Protest In Lagos by Lasinoh: 7:33am On Dec 09, 2011
Instead of these ones to go and clear all the gutters around Lagos. . .they are busy carrying 'tiko-tiko' dane guns all over Lagos for some hyper-attention deficit seeking disorderly manifestations. MEND never show face, im come be 'ACN. . .Advanced Cowards of Nigeria'. . . Shi le kun jor! angry
Who told the m0r0ns that BH is interested in crossing down to Southern Nigeria? undecided
Local touts!

If gunshots break out in an event of any signs of war. . .they will be hiding under the bridges of Lagos eating refuse!

The clash, which grounded traffic on Airport Road, lasted for some hours as [size=20pt]hoodlums[/size] from Mafoluku-Oshodi, stormed 7and 8 Bus Stop, on the road, in a bid to take over the park

Real hoodlums!
If na northerners now. . .dem go say na 'almajiris'! grin
Thank God no gang rap-ing events were recorded.
It is only a matter of time before little girls start disappearing from all parts of Lagos with these almajiris all over the place.
Beware of pedo-philes and ra-pists!
Re: Opc Stages Anti-boko Haram Protest In Lagos by Leopardd(m): 12:12am On Dec 03, 2015
Lasinoh:
Instead of these ones to go and clear all the gutters around Lagos. . .they are busy carrying 'tiko-tiko' dane guns all over Lagos for some hyper-attention deficit seeking disorderly manifestations. MEND never show face, im come be 'ACN. . .Advanced Cowards of Nigeria'. . . Shi le kun jor! angry
Who told the m0r0ns that BH is interested in crossing down to Southern Nigeria? undecided
Local touts!

If gunshots break out in an event of any signs of war. . .they will be hiding under the bridges of Lagos eating refuse!



Real hoodlums!
If na northerners now. . .dem go say na 'almajiris'! grin
Thank God no gang rap-ing events were recorded.
It is only a matter of time before little girls start disappearing from all parts of Lagos with these almajiris all over the place.
Beware of pedo-philes and ra-pists!

Yorubas sef.
Re: Opc Stages Anti-boko Haram Protest In Lagos by basilo101: 12:27am On Dec 03, 2015
Hahahahah, Yoruba and hypocrisy

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