Thugs Loot Nigeria’s Governor’s House

Kano Government House witnessed the unexpected this afternoon just immediately after the new Governor, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso returned from Sani Abacha stadium where he was officially sworn in, as thousands of party thugs stormed the house moving on rampage.

Security operatives who initially were at their best were practically over-powered by the rampaging youths who sacked them from the main gate and made their ways into the state House.

In fact, the vicinity within the Government House were practically taken over by the youths who also forcefully pulled down a section of the House’s fence from the back rear.

They looted Government property’s at the residential area of drivers, as well as the chalets built for visitors.

Also offices were not spared as they almost looted the Press section of the Government House, but for the timely intervention of journalists and police men inside the section.

“We want all the old faces out of this place. This is a new government and the new people must take over. We don’t want them again because they have looted our treasury dry. So, we want to sack them,” one of the thugs told P.M.NEWS.

However, it was learnt that the looters also carted away personal properties of some house wives including sewing machines, boxes of cloths.

P.M.NEWS reports that the crowd overwhelmed the police men at the main entrance gate to the Government House who tried in vain to disperse them, using tear-gas canisters.

It was gathered further that while the security men at the gate were engaged in a running battle, another group pulled down the rear wall of the Government House from where they began their nefarious operations.

As at the time of this report, the Government House was still under siege as the suspected “bad boys” took control of the state House in their thousands. It was difficult for anyone to find his way out of the place without hitches while the intruders insisted on making away with whatever they could lay their hands on.

It was a case of total breakdown of security at the Government House on a day when they were expected to be up and doing.

By Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano