The Commander, 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos, Brig-Gen Ahmed Taiwo has said that most of the businesses looted in Lagos during the #EndSARS unrest were owned by Igbo.
He said this Saturday in his testimony before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the Lekki incident.
Brig-Gen Ahmed Taiwo spoke while painting a picture of the alleged chaos that had arisen from last month’s #EndSARS protests and the army’s efforts to quell it.
“By my assessment, most businesses looted during the protest were owned by Igbos,” he said.
He stressed that the Army would have assisted business owners to recover their looted properties but for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s decision to lift the curfew in the state.
Brig-Gen Ahmed Taiwo said that the looting in the state gave an impression of a well-coordinated plot, criticising the Lagos State Government for allegedly not carrying many security agencies along in the decision to lift the curfew on two occasions.
He stressed that the Army assisted banks in the Lekki area to evacuate more than N2 billion cash from the Lekki area to avoid looting by hoodlums.
“On two occasions when the curfew was lifted in Lagos, the army authority was not inform. If the curfew had remain in place, we would have been able to recover the looted items from Shoprite Lekki, Sango-Tedo and its environs,” the army general said.
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