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Insecurity: FCTA Urges Abuja Residents To Install CCTV

The Federal Capital Territory Executive Committee has urged residents to install Close-Circuit Televisions to help tackle the prevailing security challenges in the country.

The Director, of Information and Communication, FCT, Muhammad Sule, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the executive committee gave the advice during its 12th Meeting in Gwarinpa I District, Abuja.

Sule said that the meeting was presided over by the FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr. Olusade Adesola, who represented the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello.

It was also attended by the Chief of Staff to the FCT Minister, Malam Bashir Mai-Borno, and Secretaries of Mandate Secretariats, among others.

The statement said the FCT Security Committee implored residents to CCTV in line with National Security Council advice.

“The installation will no doubt enhance surveillance and deter criminal activities around the FCT,” the statement said.

The statement said that the advisories issued by some diplomatic missions to their nationals living in Nigeria had generated tensions, fear, and panic among Abuja residents.

It said security agencies were combing the nooks and crannies of the FCT to fish out criminals and other people wishing to truncate the peace and tranquility of the territory.

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“Even before the issuance of the advisories (by the diplomatic missions) Nigerian security agencies have maintained and intensified surveillance within the FCT to ward off any security breach,“ the statement said.

Sule explained that the purchase and distribution of 60 operational vehicles, fitted with state-of-the-art equipment to security agencies by the FCT administration, was strategically done to assist and enhance their performance.

The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, had earlier convened an emergency security meeting where issues concerning the security alerts issued by some diplomatic missions in Abuja to their citizens were discussed and measures are taken to prevent the breach of the peace.

“The meeting, however, urged residents to cooperate at all times with the security agencies by volunteering useful and timely information that will assist in nipping any form of criminality in the bud,“ the statement said.

It said noted that the first phase of the joint security operation by G-7, stating which is contiguous to the FCT, recorded a remarkable success, especially with the arrest of bandits and the rescue of kidnapped victims.

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