Police in Adamawa apprehend 25 looters

The Adamawa State Police Command announced on Sunday evening that its agents had apprehended 25 youths who were reportedly involved in the looting that occurred earlier in the day in Yola, the state capital.

In the morning of Sunday, hoodlums broke into government warehouses and several private establishments and stole food and non-food products stored there.

In a statement to the press, Police Public Relations Officer SP Suleiman Nguroje stated that the 25 criminals were apprehended and the stuff they took were recovered from them.

Assuring that the looting had been brought under control, Nguroje stated that the focus had switched to implementing Governor Ahmadu Fintiri’s statewide curfew.

Fintiri had issued the curfew in the early afternoon, not only in Yola, where the looting occurred, but throughout the state, citing the need to increase the effectiveness of operations to stamp out hoodlum activity.

Nguroje stated that the state Commissioner of Police, Afolabi Babatola, who personally walked into the streets to supervise curfew compliance, needed to form a task team to ensure compliance.

“Not satisfied with the initial level of compliance, the CP formed a task force involving personnel from the operations department and sister agencies,” Nguroje added, ensuring that the curfew was now properly implemented.

In a related development, the Yola region office of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has been verified as one of the enterprises targeted by the Sunday morning looting in Yola.

Ladan Ayuba, the agency’s Yola region head of operations, told reporters beside the police PRO that hoodlums gained entry to the agency’s stores by breaking down the walls and stealing food and non-food items held inside.

“It’s unfortunate because the items in those stores were meant to be distributed to poor Nigerians to alleviate the hardship they are experiencing,” he remarked.