The Minister of the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, has urged the chairmen of the six Area Councils of the FCT to hold mandatory monthly security meetings to improve the security situation in their respective area councils.
The Minister who gave the directive during a security town hall at Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), on Friday, urged to be notified if any chairmen failed to hold the monthly security meeting.
Wike emphasised that any council chairman who does not hold monthly council security meetings is a threat to the security of the council.
According to him, “Therefore, I will be calling meetings of all traditional leaders, meeting with all council chairmen and meeting with all security agencies.
“If there is no monthly meeting held in terms of security meetings in the councils, I should be aware, and I will hold that chairman responsible for any security bridge.
“If you do your job, I do my job, traditional leaders do their job, and security agencies do their job, we won’t have problems.
“But if I don’t do your part, I don’t do my part, he does not do his part, and then we are bound to have security problems.”
He assured residents that the government would provide everything that security agencies require to help them perform their duties.
He pointed out that some of the security agencies do not have the needed equipment and operational vehicles to perform optimally.
The minister stressed the need for all stakeholders to work together and support security agencies to succeed.
He promised to construct a police station and some access roads as requested by the council’s chairman, Mr Christopher Maikalangu.
Earlier, the Chief of Karshi, Alhaji Ismaila Mohammed, who spoke on behalf of traditional leaders at the meeting, called for working synergy between security leaders and community structures.
Mohammed warned politicians against provocative statements concerning the security situation in the FCT.
“Please do not politicise the security situation in the FCT. Leave the security challenge out of your politics, he pleaded.
The chief asked the minister to compel the council chairmen to hold the mandatory monthly peace and security meetings.
He explained that the meeting was supposed to be monthly where all the Divisional Police Officers, Area Commanders and Heads of Department of State Services meet to exchange security information.
Dominica Nwabufo
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