The Igbo socio-cultural group in a statement jointly signed by its President, Dr Nnanna Igwe and Secretary Mazi Kingsley Offor (Esq), stated that the acts were not acceptable, and negate the vision of the #EndSARS movement.
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Tanimola Obasa, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Jos.
Earlier, he tweeted that the hoodlums were taking what was rightfully theirs and the government trying to save itself from embarrassment by saying that the #EndSARS protest had been hijacked by hoodlums.
Several videos showing hoodlums breaking into warehouses and carting away COVID-19 palliatives have gone viral on the internet.
The hoodlums are suspected to be some of those who hijacked the #EndSARS protest to wreak havoc.
The protesters also destroyed valuables and equipment worth millions of Naira at the office of the Department of Petroleum Resources, warehouse in the Ministry of Works, Commercial Transport Regulatory Agency, Value Mart Supermarket and Cross River Newspaper Corporation, publishers of Chronicle.
In a resistance put up by Customs Officers on duty, 24 of the motorcycles and a tricycle that conveyed the looters to the facility were seized.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the youths had trooped to Magboro communities on the Lagos/Ibadan expressway as early as 7a.m., moving from house to house in search of COVID-19 palliatives.
Governor Ben Ayade had on Friday declared a 24-hour curfew in the state.
Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who visited the scenes of the incident reports that the hoodlums were seen moving the items and trying to convert them to their personal use.
The incident was confirmed by Folarin during a radio programme monitored on Saturday in Ibadan.
The Oyo State Government maintained that the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde would never shortchange the people, urging members of the public to discountenance the allegations and misinformation being spread on social media.
Hoodlums had attacked the company’s head office at Ketu on Tuesday amid the unrests that trailed the #EndSARS protests.
According to available information, over 50 suspected thugs on Saturday morning invaded the Area 10 FCT warehouse area, where the COVID-19 palliatives were stored.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria reports that the hoodlums were seen in their numbers carting away bags of rice, noodles, salt and gallons of vegetable oil.
The hoodlums, including females and teenagers, carried various dangerous weapons and chanted solidarity songs while looting the items.
The senators made their position known in a communique after a meeting of the South-West Caucus of the Senate in Abuja on Thursday.
The attackers, who struck at about 3:45pm, intending to break into the facility and free prisoners, were however prevented by the combined team of the Correctional Service Command and the Police.
The hoodlums, in video clips obtained by PRNigeria, also beheaded the policeman and thereafter burnt his headless body.
The position of the Forum was contained in a statement by its spokesman, Prince Adewale Taorid Ojora, on Thursday.