Three Died As Hundreds Invades State Warehouse For Palliatives

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Three Died As Hundreds Invades State Warehouse For Palliatives

Three persons on Sunday died as thousands of people stormed state warehouse in Lokoja to cart away the remaining palliatives meant for covid-19 pandemic .

The warehouse located along the Murtala Mohammed way, very close to Kpata market in Lokoja was invaded as early as 7 am on Sunday by youth and women who invaded the place for covid-19 palliatives.

Our reporter who went there gathered that the three persons died as a result of stamped when people were rushing into the warehouse to take their own goods.

The state government had last month commenced distribution of the Covid-19 palliatives to all the 21 local government areas with each local government area getting one trailer and one canter truck loaded with items such as rice, semovita, indomie noodles, and marcaroni .

The invasion of the warehouse on Sunday followed the state Governors order that the remaining items should be distributed to residents of Lokoja .

The security agencies deployed to the area even encouraged people to go inside and collect their own palliatives and advised the people to maintain peace and avoid anything that will led to stamped.

One of the women who spoke with our correspondent Mariam Adamu said the people were there in response to the Governor’s directive that the remaining items be distributed to the people.

“I am here to see if I will be lucky to get some food items for my family since things have not been easy for us since Covid-19 pandemic”

Meanwhile, the Kogi State Government has expressed deep appreciation to the people of the State who turned out at the State Warehouse to share the remaining palliatives that were reserved for women and youth groups after Government had distributed the bulk of the palliatives to all the 21 Local Government Areas.

The Hon. Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo in a press statement issued on Sunday said “report at our disposal showed that Local Government authorities ensured the palliatives reached the masses and helped in ameliorating the hardship visited on our nation as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We urge our people to continue to stand tall in public conduct as Government will always put their welfare on the front burners”


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