Fashola Shuns Protesting Lawyers

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Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday shunned lawyers who marched to his office in protest at the fuel price hike.

The lawyers had under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch marched from the Lagos High Court in Ikeja to the Governor's Office at Alausa, Ikeja, demanding to see Fashola.

Led by the branch Chairman, Adegbamigbe Omole, the lawyers, all dressed in suits, left the high court at 10.20am and got to the Governor's Office at 12.30pm.

They demanded the reversion of the fuel price from N141 to N65 and urged Nigerians to join the general strike fixed by labour leaders for Monday, January 9.

They were stopped at the gate by securitymen attached to the governor.

When a message was passed to the governor, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, about the presence of his colleagues at the gate, he said he was not aware that they were coming to see him.

He also said they should be told that he was in a meeting.

The son of legal icon, Gani Fawehinmi, Mohammed, and the wife of activist and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, Funmi, were part of the protest.