Enforcers of the sit-at-home order in the Southeast on Monday set ablaze a truck loaded with cement in Enugu State.
The fire also destroyed about 600 bags of cement loaded on the truck.
The incident, which happened at Beach Junction Nsukka town, in Nsukka Local Government Area, was said to have occurred in the early hours of Monday.
The perpetrators were said to have blocked the truck at Beach Junction Nsukka where the driver and his conductor fled before the truck was set ablaze.
Enugu Police Command was yet to react to the development as the whereabouts of the driver and his conductor was not confirmed.
Efforts to get the police reaction were unsuccessful as Enugu Police spokesman Daniel Ndukwe could not be reached as at the time of filing this report.
His phone was switched off.
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An eye witness said, “The gunmen forced the driver of the truck to pull off, and shot some bullets into the gas tank of the vehicles, which sparked off the inferno.”
However, the gas didn’t explode to cause more havoc. Thus, half of the cement bags were still intact.
Another witness said, “Some people wanted to cash into the calamity. They had started evacuating some bags of cement for their private use, but for the quick intervention of men of the Nigeria Police.
“The miscreants succeeded, but not much. The police were swift.”
Meanwhile, there was commotion at the scene of the fire when police operatives guarding the premises arrested a young man who was recording the burning truck with his phone, and whisked him away.
“They want to make money from his arrest,” said an onlooker. “He didn’t do anything. They arrested him and drove off.”
The operatives later returned and stated shooting sporadically, forcing the observers to flee.
A policeman was heard saying, ‘no person should near here. If you near here, you are a dead man.”
