Speaking on Monday in Abuja at the inauguration of a Special Investigative Panel to probe the invasion and
looting at the central warehouse of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Vocational Training Centre in Kaiama, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Dokubo gave assurance that perpetrators of the nefarious act who also vandalised property at the training facility about three weeks ago, would be brought to justice.
He urged the CM, IG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Justice Peshawar High Court and other high ups to take notice of the situation and arrest the involved people in
looting the public on the name of development with the fake NGO.
Following the surge of
looting incidents, the city was placed under a state of calamity and the local government placed a 10 pm to 6 am curfew to avoid more incidents of thefts at commercial and business establishments.
What lessons were learned from the museum
lootings in Iraq?
Maybe we need to follow the example of the people of Egypt and Tunisia and occupy every town square in the country till the
looting stops and the criminals are brought to justice.
Earlier on Friday, Shehab and Gamet El-Dowal streets in Mohandesine district saw mass
looting as stores, banks and exchanges were broken into and looted by thugs coming from neighboring districts.
In Coventry, the blitz of November 14 provided the biggest opportunity since the beginning of the war for
looting. Within days of its destruction, Edward Crich, a Loughborough engineer, was sentenced to three months' hard labour after stealing a Georgian church register from the ruins of Coventry Cathedral.
The latter, by contrast, set off 25 hours of arson,
looting, and chaos.
The key private figure involved in what Johnson calls the "
looting of Asia" was the notorious Yoshio Kodama, a rich and fanatical ultra-nationalist with connections to both the underworld and some of Japan's most famous postwar political figures.
Reports indicate that some
looting took place at the Basra Museum as well.
Commenting on the
looting that swept Baghdad in the first days of that city's invasion by U.S.
She said there had been no confirmed reports of deaths but cholera could spread quickly without urgent repairs to laboratories destroyed in the
looting that swept Iraq after US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein.
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Looting follows the breakdown of law and order in most societies," wrote two U.S.
Destruction and loss of cultural objects and historic architecture through
looting, fighting and vandalism was followed by ideological destruction during the six-year regime of the Taliban.