The FCT Police Command has refuted media reports that kidnappers adorned in Police uniforms have kidnapped 17 persons from the Apo area in Abuja.
This is as the FCT Police Commissioner, CP Haruna Garba, dismissed the report as a figment of the authors’ imagination, as no incident of such happened within the FCT.
Haruna, in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP. Josephine Adeh, also enjoined non-state actors who have been engaging the Police emergency lines in their mischievous posts, aimed at misleading members of the public and those submitting same, to obtain loans to desist from such.
He urged residents to only use the emergency lines for its intended purpose, as deliberate steps will be taken to arrest and prosecute the purveyors of these illegal acts.
The statement reads in part, “The Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Haruna Garba, hereby wish to inform members of the public that contrary to the falsehood making the rounds on media platforms alleging that kidnappers who adorned the Police uniform to perpetrate their illicit acts have kidnapped 17 persons from the Apo area in Abuja is clearly a figment of the authors’ imagination as no incident of such happened within the FCT.”
In the same vein, the commissioner of police urge residents of the FCT to cooperate with the police for improved service delivery, and equally tasks FCT residents to cooperate with the police for improved service delivery and also take advantage of the Police Control Room numbers in reporting suspicious activities.
