The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Muhammad Bello has directed the arrest and prosecution of the people who broke the FCT warehouse in Gwagwalada Area Council and looted the food items in the store.

Bello gave the order during an emergency security meeting with leaders of various security agencies in the city, on Monday in Abuja, according to News Agency of Nigeria(NAN).

It was gathered that suspected hoodlums on Monday looted a warehouse in Gwagwalada area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

The warehouse is located along the Secretariat road in Gwagwalada.

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Reacting, the Abuja minister, who asked those who looted the food items to return them immediately, disclosed that there would also be massive deployment of security agencies to safeguard factories and warehouses in Idu Industrial District of the city.

Bello stated: ”What is going on is no longer End SARS protest but broad day stealing by hoodlums.''

Some warehouses with COVID-19 palliatives in Lagos, Osun, and Kwara States have been attacked and looted after the peaceful End SARS protests ended.