The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Rep. Femi
\nGbajabiamila, on Monday visited the sites of damaged public and private
\nfacilities in his Surulere 1 Federal Constituency in Lagos.<\/p>\n
The Speaker, whose visit came after the looting spree that took place in
\nSurulere following the reactions to the #EndSARS Lekki tollgate
\nshootings, addressed the residents at Shitta Roundabout, Surulere,
\nvisited affected shops and the Bode Thomas Police Station.<\/p>\n
In his address to residents and traders who gathered at the Shitta area
\nof Surulere, Gbajabiamila assured his constituents that the former
\nanti-robbery team codenamed SARS has been totally disbanded by the
\npresident.<\/p>\n
“You have all spoken, and the government heard you loud and clear. While
\nin Abuja where you sent me to represent you, I heard all your
\ncomplaints. All that happened in Lekki is what we have all seen and it
\nis being investigated, but you see the social media has its good and bad
\nuntil it’s fully unravelled that we can know the next step to take.”<\/p>\n
“On the issue of EndSARS, you should all know that I am there for you as
\nyour representative. It’s all you want we are going to do. EndSARS
\ncannot come up again, because there is no more SARS. You see all that
\nhappened at Adeniran Ogunsanya and Bode Thomas, I can boast that it was
\nnot carried out by children from Surulere, we all know they came from
\noutside Surulere because I know my own people. Surulere shall continue
\nto prosper by the grace of God”, Gbajabiamila said.<\/p>\n
The Speaker proceeded from Shitta to Adeniran Ogunsanya Shopping Mall
\nwhere he spoke to many business owners who gave various accounts of how
\nthe damages done to their businesses were executed.<\/p>\n
According to a business owner at AOS Mall, Mr. Oladimeji Ogunniyi, the
\nlooters carried out the ugly exercise despite the darkness in the mall.<\/p>\n
“The looting of this mall started precisely 7:45am till 4pm, so what we
\ndid was that we advised the security in the mall to off the light so
\nthat they will be operating in darkness, thinking there may be
\nrestraint.<\/p>\n
“You can see blood (stains) still on the ground. Immediately the mall
\nlights were put off, they forced themselves into the glass and they
\nsustained degrees of injuries. All the looting was done in the dark. We
\nhave over 100 shops in the mall and none was spared.<\/p>\n
“All the items in my shops were taken. This is the only mall that gives
\nindigenous and local entrepreneurs opportunity to operate, except for
\nShoprite, KFC and few others that are multinationals. In each shop, we
\nhave at least three staff,” Ogunniyi said.<\/p>\n
A textile shop owner at Adeniran Ogunsanya Mall, Mrs. Fausat Shomade,
\ntold the Speaker that she has lost her source of livelihood.<\/p>\n
“We don’t have any other thing that we eat except from this shop. This
\nshop is loaded to the full of textile materials. It was only this few
\nthat we were able to recover from the police station,” she said
\ntearfully.<\/p>\n
The Speaker also visited damaged shops on Bode Thomas, Surulere and Bode
\nThomas Police Station where he was received by the Commander of Area C
\nPolice Command, Lagos, Tijani Fatai; the Divisional Police Officer of
\nBode Thomas, Ibrahim Fasesan and the Divisional Police Officer of
\nSurulere, Adebowale Adeoya.<\/p>\n
The Speaker sighted recovered items, including Shoprite trolleys at the
\nBode Thomas Police Station.<\/p>\n
Gbajabiamila commended the officers of the Nigerian Police Force for
\nrestoring law and order in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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