SUSPECTED hoodlums stormed the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, in the early hours of Wednesday, destroying the administrative block and carted away computers and files allegedly relating to COVID-19.

Sources at the hospital told our correspondent that the protesters numbering about 50 stormed the premises with placards and dangerous weapons, attacking and destroying valuables.

Some of the placards read, ‘State govt not doing anything about the excesses of FMC, Lokoja’, ‘Please help us PMB’, ‘There are isolation centres in FMC, Lokoja with equipment, why are they unutilised?’ ‘Other FMCs across the federation are handling the pandemic’, and ‘GYB/PMB, come to our rescue. This is coming in the wake of the total cases exceeding 26,000 with 709 new cases.