The coming weeks will be tough for kidnappers in the nation’s capital, as the FCT Administration has vowed to strengthen collaboration with its contiguous states so as to tackle the menace of kidnappings and other violent crimes in the FCT and surrounding states.
Already, a security meeting involving the FCT, Niger, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Kogi, Benue and Plateau states, codenamed the G-7, has been slated for July 5 in Abuja to herald the G7 operations across the contiguous states to the FCT.
According to the director, FCTA Department of Security Services, Adamu Gwary, the meeting with heads of security agencies in the G-7 states will discuss and agree on modalities and approach to the clearance exercise.
Gwary, who made this disclosure shortly after the monthly FCT Security Committee Meeting explained that, “The FCT Administration is hosting the meeting for the technical committee, which comprises the heads of the security agencies, the members states’ commissioners of police, the director of DSS and the commandant of the NSCDC. There is the military component too, the Army Headquarters Garrison and the Defence Headquarters are part of the meeting. They will discuss and agree on modalities and approach to the clearance exercise”.
The director also disclosed that FCTA has directed security agencies in the FCT to take appropriate measures in curtailing the issues of cattle herding in the city of Abuja, the activities of scavengers popularly known as Baban bola among others.
The meeting, which was chaired by the FCTA permanent secretary, Mr Olusade Adesola, had in attendance, heads of various military and para-military formations in the FCT, religious and traditional leaders as well as relevant officers of the FCTA.
