Seaports grounded

devastating effects.

“It is important to avoid a situation where even more hardship is inflicted on the very citizens that the protesters are seeking to protect,” she noted.

She called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently grant audience to the leadership of the #EndSARS to deliberate on the way forward and to agree on an action plan for the delivery of agreed outcomes.

She also urged the leadership of the #ENDSARS to participate in the reforms to be implemented by the government in response to their demands.

Also yesterday, commercial activities were brought to a halt at the nation’s oldest Seaports in Apapa, as freight forwarders, agents as well as truck drivers joined the #EndSARS protest.

The protesters besieged the Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports on Monday and yesterday, shutting down all commercial activities at the ever-busy ports.

In Apapa, the protesters train marched from Airways, through Randle Road, to Warehouse Road and Burma Road before converging in front of the entrance into Apapa Port.

At the Lagos Port Complex Apapa, the protesters blocked the entrance to the port, disrupting movement of vehicles into and out of the port.

While at Tin-Can Island port, the freight forwarders gathered themselves in numbers within the Customs Processing Centre (CPC) singing.

Some of the placards carried by the protesters read: “End FOU Extortion,” “Maritime Police Blocking our containers, #EndStrikeforce, #EndCustoms Intimidation #End Shipping companies Intimidation among others.