Admin l Thursday, October 22, 2020
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Lagos State Government led by Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been busted for warehousing and refusing to distribute food items donated by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) to Lagos State Government for distribution as COVID-19 palliatives to residents of the state.
The items donated were received by Sanwo-Olu on September 22, 2020 but the governor and his aides have been busy battling COVID-19 and therefore not chanced to distribute the items to those they are intended for.
But members of the #endSARS protest on revenge mission after the shooting that killed a lot of people at the Lekki tollgate discovered the items in the warehouse and decided to help themselves with the distribution since the governor was too busy.
Reacting to the shocking find, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Lagos State was alleged to have said the items that have CACOVID belongs to BUA.
“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”, the PS is said to have said.
