#EndSARS: Cross River lost properties worth N73bn - Senate

At the peak of the #EndSARS protest in October 2020, properties and items worth over N73 billion were vandalised by thugs in Cross River State, the Senate has said.

In November 2020, the joint committee was asked to probe the alleged destruction of properties in the state after the Senate deliberated on a motion by Gershom Bassey on the mayhem in Calabar during the protest. amounts to the tune of N73 billion and the governor has since written to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting funds in the sum – to enable the state rebuild, reconstruct and compensate individuals and groups who had lost properts.The committee noted that a total of 41 government properties were vandalised by hoodlums during the protest around Calabar Municipal and neighbouring Bakassi, Odukpani and Akpabuyo Local Government Areas of the state.

“Internally Displaced Persons of Bakassi Peninsular have not been resettled by the federal government, neither has any kind of respite given to them,” the report read.In his presentation, Mr Gobir disclosed that one of the victims of the protest, a former senator, Mr Henshaw, appeared before the panel and narrated his ordeal.

Mr Henshaw, according to Mr Gobir, also alleged that the protest was used as an opportunity by militants to unleash mayhem on the city, adding that he lost properties to the tune of N9.3 billion to the protest.Top of the panel’s recommendations is a demand to the federal government to immediately evolve and reform the police.

What an audacious aerated figure to hoodwink the multitude and pilfer public funds for the next elections

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