The capital of Ondo state, Akure, has seen some looting by locals who stole food from a truck.
According to reports, the vehicle experienced a technical issue on Monday near the Ondo-Akure expressway’s prominent cultural hub intersection.
The residents were able to subdue the driver and pilfer the vehicle due to a mechanical malfunction.
Those who looted the truck were petty traders, artisans, drivers and commercial motorcyclists.
The latest incident adds to the worrisome list of recent looting of food items in trucks and warehouses amid the current economic hardship in the country.
On Saturday, residents of Kebbi invaded a government warehouse in the Bayan Kara area of the state capital, and looted food items.
On March 1, a truck conveying cartons of spaghetti was looted by hoodlums at Dogarawa axis of Zaria-Kano expressway.
Two days later, some residents broke into the federal capital territory (FCT) warehouse in Abuja and carted away foodstuffs, doors of the warehouse and roofing.
