From Isaac Anumihe, Abuja
Controller General (CG) of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, yesterday, said that there’s a huge presence of kidnappers in the Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The CG raised the alarm in Kwali while commissioning an office accommodation donated to the corps by the chairman of Kwali Area Council in FCT, Honourable Danladi Chia.
Another area from where the bandits launch attacks in FCT, the CG stated, is Nasarawa State.
Consequently, he called on the indigenes of the areas to inform the corps about any suspicious person in their midst as the corps relies on credible and intelligence information from them.
He recalled that in those days, strangers were reported to the chief first before they were taken to their hosts. By so doing, it was the community that was vetting itself against bandits.
Such is no more as people move about freely in the communities. This, according to him, encourages insecurity.
“Before now, we used to vet ourselves. But today, bandits will hibernate among us and nobody reports them” he said.
Earlier, the chairman of Kwali Area Council had said that it cost him a lot of money to construct the building.
To this effect, he said that he was donating the building in exchange for the employment of 500 indigenes of Kwali into NSCDC.
According to him, the commissioning came at a time there was a serious security challenge in the area.
In another development, the CG commissioned three gun trucks for the FCT Command as part of efforts to fight the crimes in Abuja
While commissioning the trucks, he warned the FCT Command to use the trucks judiciously and not to use them to harass or intimidate people.
In his remarks, the Commandant of FCT, Olusola Odumosu stated that with the trucks, the operations of the command would be enhanced.
“By this act of empowerment by the CG, the FCT Command is now charged and recalibrated to face crime and criminality headlong. Besides our regular patrols, the tactical squad will be strategically positioned within the territory to ward off criminals. We are not stopping at this, a special training will soon commence for the retraining of officers and men of the Intelligence and Investigation Department.
Odumosu used the occasion to warn criminals to look elsewhere as they no longer have a hiding place in FCT.
“Our human capital and the spread we have among the populace is a huge advantage to our sourcing of human intelligence. With credible intelligence reports and standby quick response teams, I am convinced that those who have chosen to become enemies of the state will not have a hiding place” he said.