Why you can’t ask looters to return looted COVID-19 Palliatives – Reno Omokri

Following the peaceful #EndSARS protest in Nigeria that turned violent, a group of hoodlums discovered warehouses where COVID-19 palliatives were stored.

From videos shared on social media, community members ran away with the relief items to their various homes.

In the wake of the lootings, Plateau State Government, on Monday, gave looters 48 hours to return stolen COVID-19 palliatives in their possession or risk being arrested.

Well, popular Nigerian author and critic, Reno Omokri has come out to explain why looters cannot return the palliatives.

Taking to his official Twitter account on Monday night, Omokri wrote that before governors would give orders for their people to return the looted items, government officials who looted government coffers should also be requested to do the same.

He wrote:

“You can’t ask those who looted food to return their loot, while not asking the same of those who looted government coffers, and made the masses so poor, to the extent that they have to loot palliatives, that should have been distributed to them in the first place. #EndSARS”

You cant ask those who looted food to return their loot, while not asking the same of those who looted government coffers, and made the masses so poor, to the extent that they have to loot #COVID19 palliatives, that should have been distributed to them in the first place #EndSARS

— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) October 26, 2020