No fewer than 27 persons have been arrested by the police in connection with the attack on two banks at Sagamu area of Ogun State on Monday.
The violence was said to have been caused by the difficulties experienced following the cash crunch in the country.
According to the spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Commissioner of Police, CP Frank Mba, led the police teams and some military men to tackle the situation.
He said normalcy had been restored.
It was gathered that the protesters who had earlier gathered in front of the palace of the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, set up barricades on major roads thereby disrupting the free flow of traffic.
They later attacked the two commercial banks at Ijoku in Sagamu destroying properties.
A youth leader in the town, Mr Kayode Segun-Okeowo, described the act as a “motivated destruction and not a protest.”
“This is not a protest. I’m a comrade and I understand the ABC of protest. It’s motivated to cause destruction.
“Those behind this must stop,” he told newsmen.
Segun-Okeowo also confirmed that two commercial banks were vandalised by the protesters.
