Looters not necessarily hungry, just greed and criminality – Femi Adesina

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says the looting of warehouses and shops by hoodlums were not necessarily caused by hunger or poverty but an act of greed and criminality.

Adesina disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily.

He expressed disagreement with the idea that the pandemonium which accompanied the #EndSARS protests is a true reflection of the people’s hunger and anger, according to him there is no excuse for robbery.

“I wouldn’t agree completely with that (that the looters are hungry) because criminality is criminality, would you justify armed robbery because the man was poor?

“Just as you can’t justify armed robbery because a man was poor and then he took a gun to rob another person. You can’t also justify the lootings that are going on. It is pure criminality.

“It is not everybody engaged in that looting that is hungry, that is the truth. It is pure greed and criminality,” Adesina 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 a corollary to the mere anarchy 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, he added

20 Comments

  1. Government needs restructuring i.e cut cost of governance, special adviser to the president saying or utering this statement from his , it’s very bad indeed. We are talking about hoarding palliative by the state government.

  2. Why can’t you say something about the governors who odd that huge palliative without giving it to the masses and starving us with hunger. Is there justification for that? You people are wicked.

  3. Nobody supports looting of another person’s property in the name of protest, burning of police stations also not accepted not to talk of destroy public properties in the name of protest. If those people were later apprehended there might be punishment for them. But also try to do justification for both parties not only those people against the government.

  4. This man is just stupid….. People are dying of hunger and poverty and yet ayou are confirming them to there situations…. God punish you…

  5. Always talking to impress his paymaster
    If not that, this man wouldn’t be talking this way
    He should know he is making so many persons annoyed with the way he normally talks

  6. Trump and USA is taking wise decision… Nigeria state is filled with innocent blood killed by the leaders…but federal and state… Nigeria politicians has destroyed the country with corruption and evil heart…two things can solve the issue either revolution or western world intervene… Most…

  7. if u ask me I will say that this man think from his anus because it never occur to him that him nd his boss re the looters but God will punish him for supporting evil

  8. Femi adesina said the truth… criminal we always a criminal. Does responsible for looting shops and stores are criminal not been Unger.👍👍👍🏼👍🏼

  9. I’ll be very surprised if anybody comments on anything Adesina says anymore. For five good years Nigerians have watched this man stood truth on it’s head, and now, they don’t care if they know it comes from him.

  10. You’re absolutely correct . Most of those who participated in ENDSARS demostrations were criminals & deserved to be proscuted .

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