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Kayode Egbetokun, inspector-general of police, has ordered an investigation after three different stampede incidents occurred in Ibadan, Okija, and Abuja.
In a statement on Saturday, Dec. 21, Egbetokun warned organisers of events that negligence on their part is criminal.
Egbetokun asked commissioners of police in the affected states to “carry out thorough investigations into these ugly incidents for further legal actions”.
“In light of these developments, the IGP has called on government officials, community leaders, and non-governmental organizations to work collaboratively towards establishing a comprehensive and organized framework for distributing palliatives,” the statement reads.
“The IGP has hereby warned groups and organizers of similar events to ensure the involvement of security agencies as negligence on their part is criminal and would not be overlooked, as provided for in Sec. 196 of the Penal Code and Sec. 344 of the Criminal Code, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“In addition, the IGP has encouraged the general public who would want to benefit from such distributions to tread with caution, prioritizing their safety, to avoid unforeseen calamities.”
On Wednesday, Dec. 18, over 35 persons, mostly children, lost their lives during a stampede at a carnival in Ibadan, Oyo state capital.
On Saturday, Dec. 21, two stampede incidents occurred in the Ojika community of Anambra and the Maitama area of Abuja during distribution of rice and other relief materials.
Personal items lost by those hustling for palliatives
Over 20 persons reportedly d!£d in the Anambra incident while 10 persons were confirmed de@d in the incident at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Maitama, Abuja.
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Xmas is coming make una hold una family together. A lot of sh..it is going on in the country. May souls of the departed rest in peace.
Governor ordered probe, president order probe, IG order probe for an incident police should probe without being told. Ineptitude in high places.
So where's the Igbo tribal bigot Okoro imbecile jubilating over the sad stampede incident which took place at Ibadan? Heartless imbecile.
All this grammer the IGP is blowing will not help the matter. There is hunger in the land QED.
People are hungry, Tinubu's governance is not helping at all. The government dey comot face from the needs of the people. Food items is very expensive now.
The okija shrine has taken heads too.
More women are affected. Their ignorant men will sit and wait for them to fight for food and bring it to the table for them to devour. Infidels.
Pastor tobi boyega said it. The only thing Nigerians need is rice and not answers. They have died collecting rice.
There is hunger in the land
What a bloody time??????. Ibadan, Abuja etc. Roads accidents here and there. To worsen the case many children are dying. What a bloody tenure????.This period can never be forgotten in a hurry. Lord have mercy upon our land. AMEN.
Mr IG if you don't know your job let's teach you. If you want to prob any one begin with Mr president whose policies made people to now to go any length in quest for food items especially this Xmas period.
We are paying the price for poor organisation. If crowd is not properly managed, a stampede is inevitable. It happens at churches, sports centers or village squares. After the Ibadan incident, organizers in Abuja and Anambra should have planned better. We can blame the government of shout about hunger, whenever and wherever you have poor crowd management, you have created a perfect condition for stampede. So many communities, organizations and individuals have successfully given out palliatives without incidents. Their approach was to limit the crowd size to align with the volume of materials to be given out.
There’s nothing to probe , people are hungry and desperate to feed. End of probe
@anonymous up there, Na lie oo.....hunger no dey Igbo land oo cos that's what the mugus on this platform dey push forward more or less celebrating the death of children just because it's not from there region...shebi the bonanza don reach una side...you can as well deal with it... delusional flat headed monsters.Only a few among them"just a few" get sense
It's meaningless
This is an indication that Nigerians are hungry. People left their houses as early as 4am to a palliative sharing centres to collect handful of food items but ended up loosing their lives. What a painful event!. All efforts should be geared towards food sustainability at various levels of governance in the coming year to avoid issues like this.
Those were not the personal items lost by the people scrambling for food. Those items are part of the items to be given to them I believe. Can your reporters get their facts correct? So tragic. May the souls of the departed rest in peace. Amen.
Autocratic Democracy in a One party state. Any dissenting voice with strong personal criticism is arrested.No wonder the opposition had gone quite and afraid to push for very strong continuing criticism of the Government. It is working for these bastards in power and more clamp down will happen in 2025. But these are all preload o the great Revolution that will descend upon Nigeria. It will explode like a volcano and they will run out bullets shooting all of us but the revolution must surely happen. We can't continue like this after all , all death na death whether by hunger, suicide, kidnapping, terrorists , Stampede, Fake medications and No money to treat yourself, bad roads and hundreds of other dead traps in Nigeria because of the actions and inactions of the Government riddled with corruption. Nigeria has never witnessed anything like before in her history even in the hands of the military and there seemed to be no solution but you know what we are watching something must give way one day if these monsters in Government did not repent and change their way.
Oga people died struggling for food plz probe hunger in this govt
Leadership failure
T T-Pain dividends of government, Agbadorians and rituals towards 2027
Does he need to order the police to investigate such a tragedy? Na wah for third world mentality o.
i dont know why we cant organize a simple sharing event without losing lives ,Why not just organize a queue must we be backward in everything
Natural selection happened to them, they would have been well appreciated if they died fighting against injustice and corruption.