25 suspects have been apprehended in Sunday’s disturbances that led to the plundering of a food warehouse belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
Consequent upon the hullabaloo that engulfed the city, after the free for all looting of the warehouse in jimeta, eyewitnesses said that hoodlums hijacked the looting and turned their crude weapons into private homes of comfortable residents plundering their kitchens and bedrooms in their trails.
A task force was established to enforce the ongoing stop and search by security agents in the capital with a view to enforcing a 24 hour curfew in the Adamawa state capital.
Police Public Relation Officer Suleiman Ngoroje told metrowatchxtra that lots of looted items were recovered from the suspects nabbed by the command.
He said that the situation has been brought under Control by men of the Nigerian police force who are working with the taskforce team to enforce the 24hrs curfew in Yola.
And Fintiri Declares 24 Hour Curfew
Meanwhile Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has declared a 24-hour curfew on the entire state, effective from today Sunday 30th July, 2023.
Fintiri said the curfew followed the dangerous dimension the activities of hoodlums had assumed across the state capital as they attacked people with machete and broke into business premises and homes carting away properties.
With the curfew imposed, there will be no movement throughout the state until further notice said the release.
Fintiri said that “only those on essential duties with valid identification would be permitted to move around during the period of the curfew.”
“The Governor is appealing to citizens and residents of the state to comply with the directive, adding that any person found contravening the order would be arrested and made to face the wrath of the law.
“The development followed looting of warehouses by residents, who carted assorted foodstuffs and other valuables under guise of looking for ‘palliatives’.
” Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Humwashi Wonosikou, in the release made available to newsmen on Sunday afternoon, said the curfew takes effect immediately on Sunday, July 30, 2023.
The state of Adamawa is in high tension with the on going elections tribunal yet to decide the rightful owner of the governorship mandate after the February elections in which business woman Aisha Binani of the All Peoples Congress (APC) contested with incumbent Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a keen contest.
Some residents allege that the APC governorship candidate won but was denied because of mundane sentiments tied to the fact that a woman cannot be allowed to manage a conservative state in which the Paramount ruler and Fulani Lamido of Adamawa state cannot bow before a woman in authority.
Put the PDP pundits describe the allegations as hogwash adding that if Fintiri can win the entire Numan Federation of five council areas plus other big chunks, he was indeed the winner.
This is also not the first time massive looting is taking place in Adamawa by the common masses.
The last plunder over palliatives resulted in the looting of even caterpillar parts by hoodlums who allege that it was there own share of the National cake.
Impeccable sources close to the Government house told this reporter that the governor had actually planned to commence the sharing of the foodstuffs to people public or private with effect from this week.
