The office of the Global Food Initiative located in Odi-Olowo area of Osogbo, Osun State Capital was on Tuesday stormed by many residents who looted the warehouse where food items were kept by the operators of the scheme.
Penpushing reports that the development followed the sudden disaperance of operators of the cheap food scheme leaving residents who had paid various sums for food items stranded, having waited endlessly for the operators to open for business.
The residents who had deposited money for the purchase of food items at prices below prevailing market rates gathered at the organisation’s office, and despite pleas by the owner of the building for the crowd to exercise patience and allow security agents to identify the operators and work out measures to recoup the funds deposited, the agitated residents refused to leave the premises.
Penpushing further reports that, however, at about 4pm on Tuesday, some people forced open the operators’ warehouse and looted food items, including bags of rice, noodles and groundnut oil, while those involved in the looting defied the heavy downpour
Meanwhile,the handful of police operatives on the ground battled to keep the situation under control, and as at the time of filing this report, the looting was still ongoing, with security agents firing canisters to disperse the crowd.
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