Abuja Looting: After NEMA Denial FCTA Confirms Incident

Following the National  Emergency Management Authority, NEMA denial that its warehouse was looted, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA has confirmed the incident.

The magazine reports that some residents of the nation’s capital had broken into the Agricultural and Rural Development, ARD, looting food items and other goods on Sunday.

But NEMA denied the incident even though the FCT police command confirmed the attack of the warehouse by suspected hoodlums.

The spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, while confirming the incident stated that the situation had been brought under control, the spokesperson of the ARD Secretariat, Zakari Aliyu, said the the hoodlums  also vandalise the warehouse after looting its contents.

According to him some officials from the FCTA, including the FCT Minister of State, Dr Mariya Mahmoud, will also visit the facility on Monday.

Aliyu said, “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,” he said.

“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?