Police foil attempt to break into Kwali warehouse

Attempt by some hoodlums to invade a warehouse where palliatives were kept inside the Kwali Area council secretariat were foiled by a combined team of police and men of civil defence corps.

A Daily Trust reporter, who arrived at the secretariat around 2:34 pm observed that some mobile police men and civil defence corps were stationed at the secretariat’s main gate with their patrol vans while the gate was under lock and key.

Some of the hoodlums, mostly youths, middle aged men and women as well as ladies in their hundreds stood in front of the secretariat gate, while some of the hoodlums were seen carrying sticks, stones, clubs and other weapons insistent on forcing their way into the secretariat.

An aide to the chairman of the council, who preferred anonymity said some hoodlums came in three hired buses and attempted to convince youths in the area to invade the council warehouse to loot.

“And despite they insisted that they must be allowed into the secretariat warehouse, I decided to immediately reach out to some security agents who came and prevented them access into the secretariat,” he said.

“Although, they first went to the main warehouse by the highway and looted grains and fertilizer before they came back and attempted to go into the secretariat warehouse which the security prevented them,” he added.

Our reporter, who visited the Kwali warehouse close to the highway, observed that the main door of the warehouse was destroyed by the hoodlums while the warehouse had been emptied as grains and fertilizer were said to have been carted away by the hoodlums.

Meanwhile, staff of the council who were in their various offices immediately scampered when some of the hoodlums holding sticks and stones attempted to force their way into the secretariat.

Attempt by our reporter to gain entrance into the secretariat was not successful as the main gate was under lock and key.

The council chairman, Danladi Chiya told Daily Trust over the phone that he was in a meeting with the FCT minister over the incident.

When contacted, the spokesperson of the FCT police command, ASP Mariam Yusuf, did not pick calls or reply to text message sent to her.