MANY travellers were stranded in Lagos on Wednesday, May 3 when members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) picketed Air Peace offices at the domestic terminal of the Lagos Airport, thereby grounding operations over the airline’s continued defiance of the embargo on Imo Airport.

The two unions were escalating action against the Imo State Government over its alleged disruption of the May Day celebrations in Owerri, the capital city last Monday.

The two labour unions have accused Governor Hope Uzodimma’s administration of collaborating to forge a factionalisation of the labour movement in the state.

During the May Day celebrations, they vowed to bring pressure on the Imo State Government to reverse its actions by squeezing the state with the first target of cutting it off by air.

The activists, who entered the Lagos airport and disrupted the activities of the Air Peace counters at the airport, pledged to deny the airline supply of aviation fuel in the escalating face off.

They have also petitioned the International Labour Organisation (ILO) against the Imo State Government.