The Senator Representing the Federal Capital Territory, Ireti Kingibe, stated the Senate will summon the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, over the rising rate of insecurity in Abuja.
Senator Kingibe who disclosed this while featuring on a Channels TV programme, regretted that she earlier raised the alarm about insecurity in the FCT but it was ignored.
She said, “I know that the minister will be summoned whether he responds or not it is a different matter. As the chief security officer of the FCT, he should have a plan.
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“He should be able to tell us the committee and specifically me this is the plan for protecting the people of FCT. And between him, the police commissioner, the head of security agencies…, DSS is an intelligence agency. So the security needs to know what is going on the ground.”
Lamenting the worsening level of insecurity in the city, the lawmaker representing the FCT, said she was told that the issues of insecurity were exaggerated when she raised concerns.
“I remember a few months ago, I drew the attention of the minister (Nyesom Wike) – when he came for appropriation – to the fact that security is a priority. And I have been saying that for a long time. It started off with the people in Mpape being unable to sleep,” she said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
“Some months back, the girl that was thrown out of a taxi from ‘One Chance’ that eventually died.
“All these things, I drew his attention to, but nothing was done until it got to the point where we are now.
“And I must commend the security agencies for doing something when we started to scream. But the truth is a little bit earlier, I tried to draw their attention and I was told that it was exaggerated and I said it couldn’t be because of what I was telling them, which I did not get from social media. I got it from my constituents. But I’m glad that everybody now seems to be on the same page.
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“They’re trying to take it seriously, but a lot more needs to be done. Catching the kidnappers is just the symptom. We need to get to the root cause of what is causing all of this insecurity.”
The Senator commending the Securities agency said :“And I must commend the security agencies for doing something when we started to scream. But the truth is a little bit earlier, I tried to draw their attention and I was told that it was exaggerated and I said it couldn’t be because what I’m telling them, I did not get from social media. I got it from my constituents. But I’m glad that everybody, we are now all seem to be on the same page,” she said.
“They’re trying to take it all seriously, but a lot more needs to be done. Catching the kidnappers is just the symptom. We need to get to the root cause of what is causing all of this insecurity.”
