Looters Of COVID-19 Palliatives Are Not Hungry — Presidency Sparks

Femi Adesina, the Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has unravelled that the looters of COVID-19 palliatives in warehouses in Nigeria’s states took advantage of the collapsed law and order.

Brandnewsday reports that Adeshina made this known during a session on the Channels Television, adding that the collapse of law and order in the country was as a result of a protracted protest by Nigerian youths.

Recall that there were numerous reports that Nigerians allegedly looting of COVID-19 palliatives from their states of residence’s warehouses and also the destruction of public and private property.

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The presidential aide also fired the Amnesty International’s report on what led to the nationwide looting, he claimed that the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) cannot know more than the government.

Femi Adesina Speaks On Looters of COVID-19 palliatives

Adesina said: “This crowd of people you see going to loot are not necessarily hungry and angry”.

“They are taking advantage of the collapse of law and order that came as a result of protracted protests. Amnesty International is wrong.

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“Anarchy has broken loose before even Lekki Toll-Gate . The prisons in Benin and Oko had been broken before Lekki; Orile police station had been burnt before Lekki; many policemen had been burnt before Lekki so you cannot say that Lekki precipitated all those things. Look at the timelines. Check when those things happened you’ll see that they had happened before Lekki.

“Amnesty International does not have all the facts. They don’t run this country. They shouldn’t know beyond what they have been told…. certain things, criminal in nature, had happened before Lekki and to say Lekki precipitated it is not quite right”.