The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Sunday quoted President Muhammadu Buhari as telling families to turn back children who bring home unaccounted goods.
He added that wives must ask their husbands to return looted items brought home.
Shehu disclosed these in a statement titled “Again, President Buhari condemns loss of lives, appeals for peace and brotherhood.”
He said the President, who commended the judicial panel of inquiry set up by the “Lagos State Government, one of the more dozen states to do so,” expressed his full support and optimism that such would assist the nation to give justice to peaceful protesters who lost their lives, security men who were murdered and property owners whose assets were vandalized and looted.
Shehu said a government that had launched a massive crackdown on corruption, brought in strong laws for a decisive battle against corruption, pursues loot recovery at home and abroad, and taken strong decisions against those who thought they were above the law, would not fold its arms when an otherwise legitimate and peaceful protest is turning into free-for-all vandalism and looting.
He said while the administration has blocked many means of looting public money in a war against corruption, it is the expectation that all civil authorities, community and religious leaders in the country must rise against the organized looting and plunder the nation is witnessing in parts of the country.
The presidential aide further quoted Buhari as commending the decision of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice to prosecute 229 suspects arrested by the police for allegedly using the #EndSARS protest to destroy and loot public and private property.
