The lagos state government has reacted to the incidence that happened earlier today where Lagosians broke into a warehouse where palliatives for COVID-19 were kept.
It was adjudged to be the palliatives meant to cushion the effects of Covid-19 pandemics but intentionally hidden by the government for some selfish gains.
However, lagos state government has come to refute the claim while giving their own account.
Read below…
The Lagos Government regrets to inform the public that one of our central warehouses in the mazamaza area of Lagos was ransacked today.
This ransacked warehouse was one of the central packaging and distribution points for palliatives donated by the private sector coalition, CACOVID, for the most disadvantaged across Lagos and Neighboring states.
These palliatives were handed over to the state government on September 22, 2020 and have so far been distributed to the most diaadvantaged Lagosians in line with the intervention guidelines until this incident.
Do you know that those items also belong to BUA group of companies and Some other states. Lagos State has been distributing its own. It was less than a month that those palliatives were officially handed to Lagos. We had to start doing rebagging and that took us some time. We have given to religious bodies, transporters, artisans, physically challenged people and so on. Even the community that is looting now were given. And what they have looted belongs to other groups. So people saying we are heartless are really uninformed. It is because of endsars that we were told to stop. We do not have to make noise when we distribute because of chaos. It is so sad.
PS Ministry Of Agriculture
Lagos State.
