The Senator Representing the Federal Capital Territory, Ireti Kingibe, has disclosed that the Senate will summon the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, over the rising rate of insecurity in Abuja.
Kingibe made the disclosure while appearing on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Sunday.
“When the Senate resumes, I plan that the (Senate) FCT committees specifically me, needs to sit with the two ministers and the security agencies for them to give us their plans concerning security.
“It is not that I am hoping. I know he will be summoned. But whether he responds or not is a different matter entirely. But as the chief security officer of the FCT, he should have a plan.
“He should be able to tell us, the committee, and specifically me, that this is the plan for protecting the people of the FCT. Between him, the police commissioner, and the head of the DSS, they must have a plan.”Senator Kingibe, elected under the Labour Party (LP) said.
Speaking further, she commended the security agencies, adding that a lot needs to be done to tackle insecurity in the nation’s capital.
“ 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.
“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.”
Abuja has been in the news, owing to the rising rate of insecurity in the area.
Over 69 persons were killed and 152 abducted during 194 attacks carried out by bandits and other criminals in the FCT in 2022, according to data sourced from media reports and a leading indigenous intelligence outfit, Beacon Consulting.
