At the wake of increase of kidnapping for ransom in the FCT, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Esq., on Thursday, paid a visit to Gwagwalada Area Council.
Responding to the plights of residents, the minister directed the commissioner of police to immediately set up two additional police divisions in the Gwagwalada area council.
“I am here on the directive of President Tinubu to meet and discuss with you the prevailing security challenges and find lasting solutions together,” NAN quoted him as saying.
“I was in Bwari Area Council on Wednesday and today I am here at Gwagwalada on the same issue. Next week I will visit another area council until we cover all the six area councils.
This is the second visit Minister Wike is making in the series of area council visits to dialogue with residents and proffer solutions to end insecurity in the nation’s capital.
The first Area Council he visited, was Bwari Area Council, which is the worst affected in recent time.
On January 5, six siblings were kidnapped alongside their father, Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriya, from their home at Zuma 1, on the outskirts of Bwari town in Abuja, shooting two policemen.
The captors released their father to go and raise N60 million ransom to secure the release of his daughters.
The captors released their father to go and raise N60 million ransom to secure the release of his daughters.
One of the siblings, Nabeeha, a 400-level student of Biological Science at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, was killed by the bandits on Friday, while her five sisters, including Najeebah, a 500-level Quantity Surveying student, and Nadherah, 300-level Zoology student, are still in captivity.
