By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, Wednesday, in Abuja assured that there is marked improvement in the security situation of the territory.
Wike stated this while addressing journalists after about two hours closed door session with the Senate on State of Security in FCT and measures being put on ground for improvement.
He said there has been a reduction in crime and criminalities in the FCT, adding that two of the most wanted kidnappers in the FCT have also been arrested.
He however, said though the FCT has not reached where it wants to be in terms of security, there has been marked improvement in the security situation as attested to by the lawmakers.
Hew stated further that it was impossible to put a total stop to crime and criminalities within any society, but assured that the FCT administration, working with the security agencies, will continue to do its best to secure lives and property in the nation’s capital.
“Even the Senators agreed that security has quite improved in the FCT. There is no part of this world where criminality has been eradicated completely.
“What we are trying to say is being able to limit or reduce the level of insecurity. But if anybody tells you that as a society, you will not have one form of criminality or the other, that is not correct and we must have to tell ourselves the truth,” he said.
He added that the kidnapping incidents in the FCT were sometimes stage-managed by unscrupulous elements in the society while assuring that the security agencies will continue to ensure that kidnapped victims were released.
He said: “The kidnappings you hear, sometimes, are stage-managed by people. There are some internal arrangements.
“Take for example, you have a housekeeper in the house, you have a driver who will plot to kidnap the child of their master.
“In that case, what do you want us to do? All we can do is to see how the person that has been kidnapped is released,” he said.
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