Some surviving victims of Abuja stampede: Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV.
President Bola Tinubu has claimed that indiscipline and poor organization were responsible for recent stampedes in Oyo, Anambra states and Abuja where people died during distribution of palliatives.
Speaking during his first presidential media chat on Monday, Tinubu expressed the need for Nigerians to be more organised during such events.
“It is very sad that people are not well organised. We just have to be more disciplined in our society, condolences to those who lost a family member,” Tinubu said while speaking on the ugly incidents that have taken multiple lives.
Emphasizing that it is good to give to the less privileged, Tinubu recalled that he has been doing charity for a long time but never experienced such incident because it was well organised.
“It is good to give, I have been giving out foodstuffs, commodities including envelopes for the last 25 years, I have never experienced this kind of incident because we are organised, disciplined. And if you know you don’t have enough to give, don’t attempt to even publicize it,” Tinubu said.
Many lost their lives and several others were wounded in multiple stampedes in Anambra and the FCT during the distribution of food items on Saturday, prompting the Inspector General of Police to ask organisers of similar charity works to carry security agencies along and ensure strict adherence to crowd and safety management protocols.
A few days before that Abuja and Anambra incidents, over 30 children lost their lives in a stampede during a children funfair in Ibadan, the state capital.
