The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that some of the informants working for kidnappers who had for some weeks launched daring attacks on some parts of Abuja had been arrested Wike, who made the disclosure Friday during a town hall meeting with stakeholders and residents in Gwagwalada area council, also declared war on kidnappers and their informants, vowing to go after them.
He said, “The president has asked me to come here today. The other day I was in Bwari and next week I will go to Kwali. Security is one thing the president promised Nigerians because his job is to protect lives and property. If we can’t protect lives and property, then we have no reason to be in the government. “The president has asked me to assure you that he will not abandon you.
So, all these criminals, be ready. Your time is up. Some of the people giving them information, we have arrested them. If they haven’t arrested you, it doesn’t mean that we won’t arrest you tomorrow or even before we leave this place. ”Responding to requests for more police divisions in the Council, the minister told the representative of the police commissioner to work out the modalities. “The CP should work out how we can provide two more police divisions in Gwagwalada.
We must do this immediately. It is a security matter and must not be bogged down by bureaucratic bottlenecks. “The president has given me power to buy more vehicles. By next week, we shall give more vehicles to all police stations. We shall give them modern communication gadgets.
The president has said he does not want to hear any story of kidnapping in Abuja again and the security agencies have promised to rise to the occasion. ”Speaking earlier, the chairman of Gwagwalada area council, Alhaji Abubakar Jibrin Giri, said the Council had not suffered many attacks since last year, but requested for more police divisions. “We have some undeveloped structures and I will write to your office for approval because that is where criminals hibernate.
I will write to you for approval so that we can clear all those structures because that is where criminals hide and launch attacks on the people. “We also need more police divisions in the Council because we only have two; one in Zuba and one in Gwagwalada town. We want more divisions in the boundary between Gwagwalada (FCT) and Niger state, precisely in Dobi. Also, we need one in Giri village where there is a constant influx of people.”
