It’s about 4 states right now at the last count where food warehouses have been uncovered and then looted by angry masses.
The warehouses are all reported to be caches of hundreds of thousands of bags of food items shared to the states by the federal government for the citizens.
Those foods were meant for distribution to the poorer members of the society to assist them tide over the hardship of the COVID-19.
But it is a surprise that those supplies remained locked in while the citizens they are meant to assist die of hunger.
When the first incident of such discovery and burst came last Thursday in Lagos, it looked like a one-off incident of serendipity for the hungry masses who spotted it and helped themselves to the supply.
But on Friday, there were reports of similar incidents in Kwara, Cross River and Enugu states.
All these are huge indictment on the state governments and should be condemned.
While many have concluded in anger that the governors locked them in to be used later in 2022 as political campaign gifts, or to be shared to their supporters, the governors of these states owe Nigerians an explanation.
And with the four already, we cannot rule out the possibility of having the same repeated in so many other states.
It’s doesn’t speak good of a government to hoard the food supplies meant for the poor only to watch them die in bits of hunger and hardship.
The governors just owe us explanation and apology while the rest of the states should render account of what they did with their supplies to the people whom the foods are meant for.
It’s high time governance adorned human faces in our country
