#OgunUnrest: Residents take up arms to protect themselves

For close to a week now, robberies have become a norm for the people of Ogun State.

MyNigeria.com gathered that robbers are known to ravage homes for foodstuffs and sometimes rape mothers and wives in homes where nothing could be snatched.

The continuous reoccurrence of petty theft forced them to take up arms and protect themselves against unwarranted attacks.

Since the Police refused to act.

The residents of Ogun State have taken Law into their Hands and are now carrying out Jungle Justice since the Police has refused to Act...#OgunUnrest pic.twitter.com/s67ssKwmNw

— DANNY WALTER ???? (@Danny_Walterr) April 11, 2020

Things got messy last night till this morning with a brazen assault on Communities like Ifo, Sango and a few satellite towns who recorded break-ins.

As a result, all sense of social distancing was put out of the way as members of the community gathered round to take back their city.

The People of Ogun State cannot even Maintain Social Distance or “Stay at home” as they’ve come out to defend themselves otherwise they get robbed in their houses.

Ogun state is currently battling two Viruses: Corona and Armed Robbery ???? #OgunUnrest pic.twitter.com/8tDGsxgubJ

— DANNY WALTER ???? (@Danny_Walterr) April 11, 2020

Sigh! People’s Fathers have been forced to carry their Local Guns... Really hope we don’t start counting bodies soon #OgunUnrest pic.twitter.com/3dr32HaPrD

— DANNY WALTER ???? (@Danny_Walterr) April 11, 2020

Here is another report of a break-in

They are robbing in my area at sango, two streets before my street
Really scared!!! Policemen are even running away #OgunUnrest https://t.co/yznDakamZG

— KIKELOMO???????? (@Kiikelomo) April 11, 2020

According to situation reports, even the Police were scared to battle the menace, saddling residents with that responsibility.

It’s World War3 in Ogun State as Residents are preparing for battle, this will be highly unnecessary if our security agents act fast. It's broad daylight and people don't feel secured what if it's midnight?#OgunUnrest
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— DANNY WALTER ???? (@Danny_Walterr) April 11, 2020

Okay this is getting serious????????????... my cousin just called me today that the street adjacent to theirs was robbed overnight along sango road.
What are the government and police doing about this. @PoliceNG and government should do something. People aren’t safe????????????

#OgunUnrest

— Majestee???????? (@adehshewaa) April 11, 2020

Slowly, it spread to neighbouring Lagos with records of reported cases in Abule Egba.

Hello @PoliceNG @PoliceNG_CRU, what exactly is happening in the Abule Egba - Sango axis???

This is from my DM just a while ago.

I can see a lot others calling on the government, using the #OgunUnrest hashtag. Is there still Police in this country???? pic.twitter.com/niq5hyWbYo

— Uncle Demola (@OmoGbajaBiamila) April 11, 2020

The Government has been ineffective and unresponsive. But the people have made headway in their fight to end the hoodlums besieging their homes.

Dear @segalink this happened moments ago at idiroko agbado they call them "1 million boys" mostly teenagers we have hundreds of them robbing from agbado to adiyan to ijoko, @OGSG_Official @dabiodunMFR shd help us out we can't sleep not even daytime @HQNigerianArmy #OgunUnrest pic.twitter.com/S5aj3bAKLt

— OLAGOKE OPEYEMI (@samsonopeyemi1) April 11, 2020

Some of the robbers are said to be as young as 17years.#OgunUnrest pic.twitter.com/3XOv9mISD9

— DANNY WALTER ???? (@Danny_Walterr) April 11, 2020

With special support from the influencer that made this story possible.

All of the influencers on TwitterNg it's only @Danny_Walterr that has been active truing to tweet about this #OgunUnrest people have been glamouring for help and just because this isn't about money or clout most of them find it hard to tweet about this when people need them

— Azeez Bimbo (@bhimboh) April 11, 2020

Sanity returning

Police officials are now on ground and actively going after the robbers!

Stay Safe Ogun State????????#OgunUnrest
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— DANNY WALTER ???? (@Danny_Walterr) April 11, 2020