A video is circulating on social media alongside the claim that hoodlums invaded a storage facility belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Abuja and carted away food items. The video shows a crowd of people, including men, women and children, gathered within and outside a fenced building, as some individuals were taking away bags of food items from the premises.
The other part of the video shows unidentified individuals on the rooftop of the building attempting to force their entry into the warehouse. Instablog9ja and Instablog9jamedia posted the video on Sunday, March 3, 2024, with the caption, “Economic Hardship: FCT residents invade NEMA warehouse, loot foodstuffs.”
Goldmynetv also shared the video on Instagram with the caption, “Hoodlums break into government warehouse in Abuja, steal food items.”
In the video, a man was heard saying, ‘this is the warehouse in Gwagwa Karimo..people are hungry..”
Claim: Hoodlums looted NEMA’s storage facility in Abuja
Verification
The CDD War Room checked the viral video to confirm the claim. We found that the video shows a recent warehouse invasion, as reported by multiple news outlets. Channels Television reported that some residents raided a warehouse belonging to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Department of Agriculture on Sunday morning.
According to the report, they carted away foodstuffs and other items stored in the warehouse.
However, contrary to multiple social media posts and news reports, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Manzo Ezekiel, that the looted warehouse does not belong to the agency.
Verdict: Misleading
The CDD War Room can confirm that the storage facility that some residents of Abuja reportedly invaded on Sunday, March 3, 2024, belonged to the FCT Department of Agriculture, not NEMA, as widely circulated online.
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