On Sunday, Yenagoa residents reportedly broke into and robbed a warehouse where palliatives are stored. Yenagoa is the capital of Bayelsa State.
The state capital’s 2022 flood relief supplies were kept at a warehouse in the Kpansia area.
It has not been established, though, whether the subsidy palliatives President Bola Tinubu sent to states to lessen the consequences of the subsidy reduction are also among the things the hungry locals stole.
The Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency confirmed the invasion of the warehouse and stated that it happened around 7:45 p.m. on Sunday, almost an hour after the Director-General, Walamam Igrubia, and some BYSEMA staff left the warehouse premises. It was also stated that the Agency used the warehouse to store food during the state’s 2022 flood.
In the statement, BYSEMA denounces the unidentified individuals’ invasion of a warehouse’s property as well as the state’s opposition party’s attempt to politicise the issue.
