Commercial activities have gradually commenced at FESTAC
Town, Lagos on Tuesday after an early morning sporadic shootings by suspected
oil thieves that were escaping from security personnel. A resident of the area,
who gave his name as Mr Ayodele George, said the bunkers had besieged the area
at about 6 a.m., shooting sporadically into the air for over an hour.
“At first we thought they were armed robbers as they were
shooting sporadically into the air but later we discovered they were a group of
oil bunkers who came heavily armed,’’ he said. He added that the police and
soldiers promptly responded to the distress calls by residents.
Another witness who gave his name as Emeka said that the
armed men were a group of thieves heading to a creek in FESTAC Town but were
being chased by the police. Soldiers had blocked roads leading to 4th Avenue
junction and the police were said to be chasing the thieves.
Some police patrol vehicles were still parked at strategic
places in the neighbourhood as commercial activities gradually returned to the
town. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Joseph Offor,
when contacted told pressmen that the incident was not robbery as reported
earlier.
“There was no robbery in FESTAC Town this morning, what
happened in the community was sporadic shooting by some hoodlums in the creek
but the place is calm now. “We arrested and paraded some of them last week and
impounded a tanker with about 7,500 litres of petroleum products with a hose and
pumping machine.
“They are not happy, and I guess that is the reason for them
to wake up this morning to disturb the neighbourhood. “In swift reaction, the
soldiers and the police were immediately deployed to the scene but there are no
arrest so far,’’ Offor said.
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