Aggrieved Bayelsa State residents on Monday broke into a warehouse on Isaac Boro Expressway, Yenagoa, and carted away palliatives kept by the state government.
It was gathered that the burglars, groaning under the hardship occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy, took food items, particularly rice meant for victims of last year’s flood, were kept.
Bayelsa was described as one of the worst hit states in the country’s history.
Some of the food items carted away by the looters, it was gathered, had since expired but that did not stop them.
With the subsidy removal ramping up the price of petrol from around N190 to about N620 per litre in the state, prices of goods and services had correspondingly skyrocketed resulting in acute hardship for many households across the state.
