FCT Minister, Malam Mohammed Musa Bello has summoned an emergency security meeting over the increasing cases of banditry and kidnapping in parts of the FCT.
The Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Security, Ambassador Habu Saliu Mohammed, and the FCT Commissioner of Police, Babaji Sunday briefed the media after the meeting.
Sunday said that the emergency meeting raised a lot of concerns about kidnapping and banditry in FCT suburbs. He added that the security agencies also resolved to do their best to ensure the incidents were brought to the barest minimum.
He added that all the security chiefs will again meet in his office on Monday to further strategize on what was discussed at the emergency meeting.
“We have deliberated a lot and have already put in measures, which are not good to air to the criminals as it will be to their advantage. But we have resolved among all the security agencies that we are going to do our best to ensure all those things are brought to the barest minimum.
“At the same time, we are going to improve our synergy; all of us the security agencies, and as we speak, we are going to meet in my office on Monday to further strategize on what we have discussed here. We have assured the Minister and the Minister of State, who were both in attendance, that they will see changes.”
He advised FCT residents to be security conscious and provide security agencies with actionable intelligence on criminal activities. He also tasked the residents to form small neighbourhood watches within each estate made-up of people of good character, to curb criminality, because the number of policemen is inadequate nationwide.
