Warehouse Looting: NEMA to Beef up Security at Warehouses in South West
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it is taking steps to beef up security at its warehouses in the southwest region.
The security is being tightened up, following the attack on a warehouse in Abuja, during which youth carted away all the food items in the warehouse.
Southwest territorial coordination of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, said they had been directed by NEMA headquarters in Abuja to secure the agency’s warehouses in the region.
Farinloye said critical stakeholders in the region have been placed on standby to prevent an attack on warehouses in the region.
However, Hundeyin told NAN that the command was living up to its responsibility of providing security to all and sundry in Lagos.
He noted that the command was not anticipating any such attack, stressing that the deployment was just to check acts of violence in the state.
The Command is just being alive to its responsibilities. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adegoke Fayoade, has deployed personnel to vulnerable places.
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Area Commanders, Heads of Tactical Teams, and DPOs have also been briefed in that regard.
Operatives of the state anti-crime outfit, the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), have also been briefed on the need to keep a close watch on government warehouses and malls, where food items and beverages are sold, he said.
Similarly, NEMA in the South-West Region, said its management had beefed up security around their warehouses.
NEMA’s Coordinator in the South-West Zone, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, disclosed this to NAN on Thursday in Lagos.
Farinloye said the move is to forestall any attack on government warehouses by miscreants, who may want to hide under the cover of the current challenge in the country, to break into facilities where food items are stored.
Although there’s no single food item in the warehouses all critical stakeholders are on standby for any attempt by anyone to break into them, he noted.
He added that they had been directed to beef up security for the safety of all assets of government in the region.
We are taking worse scenario precautionary safety measures to safeguard both human and other assets of the Federal Government from unforeseen circumstances, he said.
