There Is No Justification For The Looting, It Is A Crime – Femi Adesina

Femi Adesina
Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina has stated that there is no justification for the widespread looting of warehouses were COVID-19 palliatives were kept and hidden by the government.

Adesina who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday October 29 stated that the crime of looting carries the same weight as armed robbery.

He explained that the anarchy ensued from the looting was due to the EndSARS protest which disturbed the peace and sanity of the country.

Femi Adesina said, “Criminality is criminality. Would it justify armed robbery because the man was poor? Would it justify armed robbery because the man didn’t have money? Just as you cannot justify armed robbery because a man was poor and took a gun to rob another person, you can’t also justify the looting.

“Criminality will always be criminality and mere anarchy promotes criminality. What has happened in the last two or three weeks led to what has happened now. If there was cohesion and tranquillity in society, this wouldn’t happen.

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“Therefore, it was corollary to the mere anarchic situation that came on the country because of the protests. If you didn’t have people burning police stations, killing policemen, burning private and public property, you wouldn’t have this spate of looting.

“So, I don’t agree that it is all about poverty. Yes, in any country, you will have at any given time, you will have people who are poor, who are hungry and that is one of the reasons why you have government is to ensure that the number of poor and hungry people is reduced.”Femi Adesina FGPhoto Credit: Twitter

 

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