Insecurity: FCT PCC Urges FG to declare Emergency State In Abuja,

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The FCT Commissioner for Public Complaint Commission, Dalhatu Ezekiel, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on securi-ty in the territory.

Addressing a press conference in Abu-ja yesterday, he said the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, was not properly briefed by those saddled with the responsibility of securing the territory.

Dalhatu said that the spate of attacks on the FCT had risen to an all-time high.

He said what appeared to be like communal clashes among remote communities and herders had degen-erated into a full business by miscreants.

He said the commission, under his of-fice, had received many complaints from individuals and groups, including the Abuja Original Inhabitants Youths Empowerment Organisation, over in-cessant cases of killings and abduc-tions by bandits.

He raised the alarm that the worsening insecurity in the FCT was threatening peace and businesses in the territory.

He said residents of communities in Abaji, Kwali, Gwagwalada, Kuje and Bwari area councils were living in fear due to incessant cases of banditry and kidnapping, especially in Bwari and Ku-je Area Councils.