The NLC which led Nigerian students from the University of Abuja and Nasarawa State University as well as civil society organisations including Amilcar Cabal Ideological School, Centre for Popular Education Partners for Electoral Reform, Socialist Workers League and Protest to Power Movement on the picketing urged Morocco to “tow the path of honour.”
The protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as “Saharawi people must be free in their own country,” “world and African people should unite to liberate Western Sahara now,” “denying Sahrawi their independence is an injustice,” “Morocco should get out of the Western Sahara.”
President of the NLC Comrade Ayuba Wabba, who was represented by a deputy president of congress Comrade Kiri Mohammed, threw a letter into the embassy when no embassy staff attended to protesters.
The letter called on Morocco to respect the resolutions of the UN calling on it to conduct a referendum to determine the total independence of the Western Sahara from colonial bondage.
“The only viable, peaceful and democratic solution to the decolonisation of Western Sahara is for Morocco to allow the conduct of free, fair and democratic Referendum. This will ensure the exercise by the Saharawi people of their inalienable rights of self-determination and independences.
“We need the Western Sahara as a free country, as much as we respect the rights of Morocco as an independent country. We need the African people as a united Africa nation in the pursuit of the African development and global peace,” it said.
The letter which was also read by the leader of the protest appealed to Morocco to withdraw from further occupation of the Western Sahara and that the people should be free to express themselves.
A copy of the protest letter addressed to the UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-Moon was also submitted at the UN House in Abuja. It demanded that the UN unfolds an action plan to enforce its resolution on the referendum.
