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UPDATE ON ABUJA NEMA WAREHOUSE LOOTING

Some residents, who spoke to Daily Trust, said youths in their number broke into the warehouse located around Tasha area of the community around 7am, looting bags of maize and grain. A resident, Jaafar Aminu, said the looting continued unhindered till 9am when he spoke to our reporter. He said some residents as well as persons from neighboring Jiwa and Karmo town trooped towards the site with the intention of partaking in the loot He said the situation has caused a grid lock on Gwagwa-Karmo road, that leads to Dei-Dei and Jabi axis, respectively. Aminu disclosed that he left the location with bruises. 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. Daily Trust recalls 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. Read Also: https://zynga-news.blogs

HUNGER: FCT RESIDENTS LOOT NEMA WAREHOUSE

Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory on Sunday looted a warehouse reportedly belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria over the current economic hardship across the country. The PUNCH learnt that the warehouse is situated in the Phase 3 Region of the FCT area of Abuja. Confirming the incident to our correspondent, the spokesperson for the FCT command, Josephine Adeh, confirmed the incident in a text message saying, “The situation is now under control.” Additional reports by SaharaReporters gathered that the residents carted away foodstuffs and other items. Many Nigerians have been lamenting hardship following the removal of fuel subsidy and the devaluation of the naira after it was floated by President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The economic policies of the administration have pushed up the prices of goods drastically and rate of inflation .