Hoodlums broke into a government storage facility in Gwagwa town in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), owned by the Agricultural and Rural Development Secretariat of Federal Capital Territory Administration looting stored food items and others
It was gathered that the said youths, in their numbers, broke into the warehouse located around the Tasha area of the community around 8 am, looting bags of maize and grain.
Spokesperson for the ARD Secretariat, Zakari Aliyu, said the Secretary, had earlier visited the warehouse, where the residents had looted everything in the store and vandalised the place, removing the roofs and windows.
He added that the FCT Minister of State, Dr Mariya Mahmoud, and the FCT Mandate Secretary, Agric Secretariat, Lawan Geidam, will again visit the facility on Monday where more detailed information will be given regarding the incident.
“We visited the scene of the incident this morning. We visited with the Secretary and some other officials of the Secretariat. So, by tomorrow, the Secretary I think with the Minister of State will pay another visit to that place. I am sure that a lot of information that will be useful to you, you will get it. If you can just be patient, tomorrow you will get all the information you need. If you go there, there is nothing there. If you know that place, do you know that they removed the roof, and the windows inclusive, apart from the food items?”, he said.
A resident told journalist that some residents from neighbouring Jiwa and Karmo towns trooped towards the site with the intention of partaking in the looting
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
