As the looting of COVID-19 palliatives across the country continues, three women are suspected to be dead during the looting of a palliative warehouse in Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) Abuja.
Some other individuals who were suffocating were helped out of the building and assisted with sachets of water.
Some of the hoodlums climbed fences from adjacent compounds near WAEC office while others fought their ways through the back of Fidelity Bank premises.
Parts of the roofs of the warehouse were broken by hoodlums to provide access into the hall.
Personnel of the Nigeria Civil Defence and Security Corps, the Nigeria Police and the Brigade of Guards of the Nigeria Army, who arrived the venue early, blocking the roads with their vehicles, were overpowered and watched as people made away with the COVID-19 palliatives.
Trouble began at about 8.43am as youths gathered within the areas, leading to the warehouse, which was built within five months by the Gwagwalada Area Council.
As they gathered in hundreds, shouting and expressing anger over the sufferings in the land, they were joined by motorcyclists who came with stories of looting and raid incidents from other parts of the country.
By 9 am, security personnel could no longer control the crowd mostly youth and women who forced their ways into the warehouse, broke the doors and part of the wall and began looting all items inside the building.
It was gathered youths from the surburbs of Angwa Dodo, Wazobia Parks, Tipper garrage, Passo and surounding areas of Gwagwalada markets joined the massive crowd to help themselves to the looting of the palliatives.
They were heard saying: “This is our money, these people are wicked to have hidden these products and refused to share them.”
