There is heightened tension in Gwagwalada, one of the local council areas in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) following stampede resulting from a palliatives’ warehouse where many residents have besieged and are carting away food items.
Already, police have been deployed to the seen and are firing teargas.
Amongst the items many made away with were bags of rice, semovita, spaghetti, indomie, sugar, salt, cartons of seasoning cubes, bags of fertilizer, cable wires, grinding machines amongst other other – all boldy crested with the logo, CACOVID-19.
A resident who refused to disclose his name to this reporter said, “I was at home when my friend called me to say I should come out that the warehouse has been discovered.
“I was asking which warehouse because I didn’t see this coming but he was not responding so I went out and joined the crowd running to the location. It’s our food and I came to take mine.”
Another resident who also didn’t mention his name said the warehouse is stocked to the full with palliatives, and that the place was built during the lockdown period.
