Lagos Teachers, Pupils Caned Out of Schools - NLC

Some yet-to-be identified labour leaders descended on some Lagos schools yesterday, chasing out teachers and pupils who defied the strike action order issued by the NLC leadership.

At Christ Assembly Primary School, Olodi Apapa, witnesses told Daily Trust that teachers and students had resumed for normal academic activities when some officials of NLC ran into the school compound and ordered the teachers to go home.

Simon Jude, a cobbler working close to the school entrance gate, also narrated how the protesting NLC officials descended on Newland Secondary School, Olodi Apapa.

As the strike entered its second day, workers who resumed for work at the Federal Secretariat and Ministry of Environment in Ibadan, Oyo State, were chased out by agitators to join the protest.

The protesters, leaving the NLC secretariat at Idi-Ape, traversing Ikolaba, Customs, Oshuntokun, Kongi, Bodija, University of Ibadan, Sango and back to the NLC secretariat with the labour leaders vowing to continue the protest. The protesters marched peacefully, distributing leaflets on why more people should join the strike.