On Sunday evening, the Adamawa State Police Command announced that its agents had apprehended 25 teenagers suspected of being involved in the looting that occurred earlier in the day in Yola, the state capital.
Hoodlums went into government warehouses and some private establishments early Sunday morning and stole food and non-food products stored there.
In a statement to the media, Police Public Relations Officer SP Suleiman Nguroje stated that the 25 criminals were apprehended and the stuff they took were recovered from them.
Nguroje assured that the looting had been stopped and that focus had now switched to executing the governor’s order for a statewide curfew.
In order to increase the effectiveness of measures to put a stop to hoodlums’ actions, Fintiri issued the curfew in the early afternoon, not only in Yola, where looting occurred, but also over the entire state.
Nguroje claimed that a task force had to be established to ensure compliance after the state’s police commissioner, Afolabi Babatola, personally patrolled the streets to monitor adherence to the curfew.
“Not quite satisfied with the initial level of compliance, the CP constituted a task force involving personnel from the operations department and sister agencies,” Nguroje said, assuring that the curfew was now fully in place.
In a related development, the Yola area office of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has been confirmed as one of the establishments affected by the Sunday morning looting in Yola.The Yola area head of operations of the agency, Ladan Ayuba, who addressed newsmen alongside the police PRO, said the hoodlums accessed the stores of the agency by breaking down the walls and taking away food and non-food items kept there.
“It’s sad because the items in those stores were meant to be distributed to poor Nigerians to cushion the hardship they are facing,” he said.
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