Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike has described a recent report that 100 people were killed in one of the FCT area councils in Abuja as false and exaggeration.
This is following the persistence of rising cases of ‘One chance’ robbery, and kidnapping, in Abuja.
This came as a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudom Nwuche called on Nigerians to rally behind Wike, in his drive to restore the Abuja master plan and instill discipline in urban development.
Speaking in Abuja, during his recent live broadcast with selected reporters, he vowed to shut down illegal motor parks..
While insisting that the issue of insecurity was not peculiar to FCT, he faulted the report that over 100 people were killed in Abuja. “That is not a tenable report,” Wike said.
“When you say 100 people, who are these 100 people that were killed? Some people like to exaggerate. I’m not saying that one or two persons were not killed. To say that 100 people were killed, that is not possible. We have to publish the information with facts and figures. You know one of the priorities of Tinubu’s administration is the security and protection of lives and property.
“No government can be serious if you cannot protect lives and property. And that is why for us, we have to key in and reduce the level of insecurity in FCT”.
Fear has continued to grip many residents over the activities of criminals who disguise themselves as commercial vehicle operators to attack and rob unsuspecting victims.
There have been reported cases of ‘one-chance’ robbery and kidnapping in Abuja for weeks.
A joint task force on cross-border crimes was set up last week to tackle the security menace called ‘one-chance’ robbery, with the involvement of all security operatives in the FCT.
The task force was constituted after a security meeting chaired by the Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike.
The minister blamed the rising crime in the capital city on illegal motor parks and uncompleted buildings used as dens by criminals.
He said: “We’re getting a lot of reports about kidnappings here, about one-chance there.
“In most cases, we don’t even let the public know what has been done. I can tell you the security agencies have done quite a lot. If not, by now, the FCT would have been a different thing.
“One of the areas we identified is that the FCT is at the centre – we have Niger State, we have Kogi State, we have Nasarawa State, we have Kaduna State. And if you check these four states, these four states are states that (experience) from time to time, banditry, kidnapping.
