Hausa Youths Strike Again!!! This time in Lagos (Lagos)

Not lesser than millions of naira in damages was the extent of the havoc wrecked by some lawless Hausa youths in Lagos state on Thursday, 9th January when they set the area office of the Apapa-Iganmu LCDA ablaze.

It was around 5pm according to eye witnesses, when the Hausa youths who are mostly Okada Riders within the council stormed the LG area office of the council, to protest the seizure of their colleagues ‘Okadas’ by some council officials over non payment of ‘riders permit’. The protest quickly degenerated after they began throwing bottles and forcefully opened the gate to unleash terror on the council officials.

While they were trying to force the gate open, the council officials who had seen danger staring them in the face took to their heels, and escaped through the fence.

After gaining entrance into the compound which also houses a primary school building, the rampaging Hausa ‘Okada riders’ vandalized properties worth millions of naira, destroyed parked vehicles, took away the seized ‘Okadas’, and still carted away some sewing machines used for vocational training and finally set the office ablaze.

It took the timely intervention of the members of the Federal Fire Service to arrest the situation, else there would probably have been nothing tobsalvage from the situation.