By: Ade Phillips
Thugs forcibly entered a government storage facility in Gwagwa town, located within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Sunday, and proceeded to loot stored food items.
Residents, who recounted the incident stated that a group of young individuals from the community broke into the warehouse around 7 am, making off with bags of maize and grain.
Jaafar Aminu, a local resident, described the looting as ongoing until approximately 9 am when he spoke with our reporter. He added that more individuals from neighboring Jiwa and Karmo towns joined in the unlawful activity.
As a result of the chaos, traffic congestion ensued on the Gwagwa-Karmo road, impacting travel to Dei-Dei and Jabi areas.
Aminu mentioned sustaining injuries before leaving the scene.
Another resident, Christopher Agbo,said the looters did not spare even protectors used to barricade the site as they picked anything deemed useful from the warehouse.
Recalled that the warehouse was also looted during the Covid-19 lockdown. Grain bags as well as pumping machines meant for intervention were stolen from the site by the looters.
After raiding the store, the rampaging youths headed towards Idu Industrial Estate, an area that hosts warehouses owned by individuals and also government.
There was no presence of security operatives to check the attacks at the time of filing this report.
But when contacted, FCT police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said the police were already on ground trying to control the situation.
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