JUST-IN: Students Stage Pro-Dangote Refinery Protest In Oyo

Students nether the aegis of the National Association of Oduduwa Students (NAOS), the Coalition of Yoruba Students, and the Yoruba Movement, connected Tuesday, staged a protestation successful Ibadan, Oyo State capital, successful solidarity with the Dangote Refinery amidst its ongoing quality with lipid workers and marketers’ unions, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), NUPENG, and the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN).

The protesters, who converged astatine the Iwo Road Roundabout, the extremity of the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway, marched done large streets chanting solidarity songs and waving placards with inscriptions specified arsenic “Don’t Kill Dangote Refinery,” “#StopSabotagingFuelInNigeria,” “#EndPENGASSAN,” “#EndDAPPMAN,” “#DangoteRefineryIsANationalAsset,” and “#StopSabotage.”

Dressed successful matching shirts emblazoned with the connection “Don’t Kill Dangote Refinery,” the protesters said their objection was intended to gully the attraction of the Federal Government to what they described arsenic a “coordinated effort by vested interests” to frustrate the operations of the backstage refinery, described arsenic Nigeria’s biggest concern concern and Africa’s largest single-train refinery.

Addressing journalists during the rally, the President of NAOS, Olalere Adetunji, urged President Bola Tinubu and applicable authorities agencies to enactment swiftly to support the refinery from disruption.

“We privation to usage this play to entreaty to the Federal Government to support the refinery and guarantee that labour and marketers’ actions bash not derail Nigeria’s determination toward substance self-sufficiency,” Adetunji said.

He further emphasised that the Dangote Refinery represented a large measurement toward reducing Nigeria’s dependence connected imported petroleum products and boosting concern growth.

Security operatives, including unit of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), were stationed astatine strategical locations to support bid arsenic the protestation progressed peacefully.