Protesters have told Arik Air, grounded Nigeria’s largest airline, to pay at least a billion naira out of the over 12 billion naira they say the airline owes struggling aviation agencies in Nigeria before noon today for the protests to end.
An eyewitness on the ground informed TheSimonAtebaNews that there was no sign things were going to improve anytime soon.
Thousands of protesters on Wednesday morning stormed the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal one in Lagos and effectively grounded the flight operations of Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air, over billions of debts the airline has been unwilling and unable to pay.
Union members who are government workers at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, said they shut down Arik Air operations due to the inability to pay billions of debts
Murtala Muhammed Airport 1 Arik Airk shut
Thousands of passengers were stranded at many airports across the nation, as the Lagos terminal sat unusually empty with aviation union members singing outside and dancing, vowing that enough was enough.
Clips sent by an eyewitness inside the terminal building painted a picture of desolation and a crisis that was just escalating after many warnings were not acted upon.
Inside mm1 
Inside MM1 this mornig captured via WhatsApp video 
Inside MM1 this mornig captured via WhatsApp video