Police loot in Okene, burn shops •Nothing like that happened - PPRO

(NIGERIAN TRIBUNE) - IT has been alleged that Mobile Police men drafted to Okene in Kogi State to ensure law and order after the Monday and Tuesday killings were looting  shops and setting some ablaze.
While the soldiers  maintained peace,  embarking on stop and search, Mobile Police men allegedly engaged in  looting shops after forcefully breaking the doors and carted away goods worth several millions of naira.
An eye witness disclosed to Sunday Tribune that the Mobile Police men also assaulted innocent people, particularly commercial vehicles traveling across  the town to another state.
Sunday Tribune gathered that owners of the shops were helpless as the men shot sporadically to scare onlookers away from the scene.
Others averred that commercial  bus drivers were forced to jump, while passengers had to trek many miles before they were allowed to go.
When Sunday Tribune called on the Police Public Relations Officer of Kogi State, Police Command, Mr. Ile Simon, he said nothing like that ever happened in the state.
Meanwhile the Ohinoye of Ebira land, Alhaji Dr. Ado Ibrahim, has summoned traditional rulers in Kogi Central, asking them to find lasting solution to the security problem presently confronting the area.
Sunday Tribune reliably gathered that the Ohinoyi has mandated all the traditional rulers to cooperate with  security agents presently in the area.