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By Dayo Badmus
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says the looting of warehouses and shops by hoodlums was not necessarily caused by poverty but by the pandemonium that accompanied the #EndSARS protests.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme, on Thursday, Adesina said attributing the looting to poverty was like justifying Armed Robbery.
“Criminality is criminality. Would it justify Armed Robbery because the man was poor?
Would it justify Armed Robbery because the man didn’t have money? Just as you cannot justify Armed Robbery because a man was poor and took a gun to rob another person, you can’t also justify the looting,” he said.
Adesina claimed the protracted protests provided an atmosphere for looting to take place.
He said if police stations were not burnt down, there wouldn’t have been a breakdown of law and order.
The President’s spokesman said, “Criminality will always be criminality and mere anarchy promotes criminality.
What happened in the last two or three weeks led to what has happened now. If there was cohesion and tranquillity in society, this wouldn’t happen.
“Therefore, it was corollary to the mere anarchic situation that came on the country because of the protests.
If you didn’t have people burning Police stations, killing Policemen, burning private and public properties, you wouldn’t have this spate of looting.
