About 44 suspects involved in the vandalisation and stealing food and non-food items in government warehouses Yola, the capital of Adamawa state have been arrested.
The state police command’s spokesperson SP Suleiman Nguroje, revealed this on Sunday in Yola.
Hoodlums vandalised the storage facilities at about 11 a.m on Sunday and stole maize, rice, beans, corn, generators, wrappers, mattresses and plastic buckets.
Nguroje said the police had been deployed to enforce curfew declared by the state government and securing public and private infrastructures as well as markets.
He told the people to be law abiding and assured that security operatives would recover some of the items and arrest those involved.
