By Ishaya Ibrahim
Hungry Nigerians are roaming the highways, and now government warehouses seeking for what to loot. On Sunday morning, they descended on a warehouse belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and looted the grains there.
The raid on the NEMA warehouse is the first food looting in a warehouse since the hunger protest began. Previous lootings were of trucks carrying food stuff. Several of such trucks belonging to Dangote and BUA, the two major food manufacturers in the country, have been looted in Kogi, Kaduna, Katsina and Niger.
On X, formerly Twitter, Nigerians have reacted to the latest looting of foodstuffs in a government warehouse.
@firstladyship said: “This was how the French Revolution started. It started small, and snowballed into something huge and quite unexpected. No army can stop an army of hungry Nigerians.”
@JohnsonLyor said: “Hunger Unites everyone. That i’m so sure there’s no Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa. The elites didn’t see this coming . Since they divided the country during the election just for a vote, now hunger don bring the people together.”
@Andyroy007 said: “We have a crisis that is gradually growing. How did we get to this point?”
@BuchiSeles said: “Every warehouse is under threat now. I say every warehouse, including Money warehouse if that exists.”
