By : Ighomuaye Lucky. O
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command said it has arrested 15 suspects and recovered 26 bags of maize, five Motorcycles and some vandalized aluminum roofing sheets from those who looted a warehouse in Abuja.
The FCT police command image maker, Josephine Adeh, said those arrested include two local security guards employed by the warehouse management.
Following the resurgence of the act of vandal and looting of warehouses compared to that of the #ENDSARS era, the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Mr. Mustapha Ahmed has ordered zonal directors and heads of operations to strengthen security in and around its offices and warehouses nationwide.
A statement by the spokesman, Manzo Ezekiel, in Abuja, said the directive is to forestall any security breach at NEMA’s facilities across the country.
Recall that suspected hoodlums stormed the Agric Department Strategic food store located at Tasha, in Abuja and looted food items.
Residents said the youths invaded the warehouse located around Tasha area of the community and looted bags of maize and other grains.
Some said residents of neighbouring Jiwa and Karmo communities trooped toward the site with the intention of partaking in the loot, a development some persons attributed to the current economic hardship in the country.