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Nigerian Citizens Justify Massive Looting of COVID-19 Supplies

Timothy Obiezu

   ABUJA, NIGERIA - Amid tensions in Nigeria last week over police
   brutality, mobs of citizens are overrunning several government-owned
   facilities and ransacking palliatives meant for distribution earlier
   during the coronavirus lockdowns. So far, nine Nigerian states have
   been looted. On Saturday, security officials dispersed mobs at another
   storage facility under attack in Abuja.

   Some protesters were demonstrating in front of a facility in Garki,
   Abuja, as military and police vans barricaded the entrance to the
   facility.

   Earlier, mobs of people trying to attack the facility and make away
   with some food items were dispersed after security officials fired
   their guns into the air.

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