The 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 has 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 property , you wouldn ’ t have this spate of looting .
The 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 has 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 property , you wouldn ’ t have this spate of looting .
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