350 Motorcycles, 400 Deep Freezers Others Looted From My House Are Empowerment Items- Oyo Senator

Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly Teslim Folarin has claimed that items looted at his home by angry youths were empowerment materials.

Making this disclosure in a statement, Teslim who described the perpetrators of the act as coordinated hoodlums, said that over 1,100 empowerment items including motorcycles, deep freezers, generators, and grinding machines were looted.

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Pointing out that the looters were different from the protesting youths protesting against police brutality, Folarin further described the incident as broad daylight robbery.

He also disclosed that the attackers broke down doors to rooms in the house to steal valuable assets.

“The actions of the hoodlums are condemnable, and it is very disheartening that some bad elements in our society are hiding under the guise of #ENDSARS protests to loot and disrupt peaceful atmosphere in Nigeria,” he said.“I thank God we did not record any fatality, despite the violent invasion of my Oluyole house, looting of materials and vandalisation therein.

"For the sake of clarification, I have just formally taken receipt of the empowerment materials from a federal agency coordinating constituency projects for federal lawmakers.

“Also, I used my personal money to procure additional materials. I took stock of the materials ahead of a mega empowerment programme scheduled to hold in November 2020.

“Looted materials included over 350 motorcycles, 400 deep freezers, 350 generators, grinding machines, sewing machines, hairdressing and barbing salon materials, vulcanising machines and many more.”