The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, is currently presiding over a security meeting with security heads over the escalating rate of kidnappings and killings in the nation’s capital.
The meeting is also being attended by Area Council Chairmen, RovingNaija News gathered.
The meeting is at the instance of the FCT minister, who has issued a directive to enhance operational efforts of security Agencies and address their challenges effectively.
Wike, urged Abuja residents not to panic that normalcy would soon return to FCT.
However, neither the Force Headquarters nor Defense Headquarters, DHQ, responded to calls.
It could be recalled that in Abuja, kidnappers who abducted 10 persons from an estate in Sagwari Layout, Dutse, on January 7 reportedly killed three of their victims to send a strong warning to their relatives who were negotiating ransom payment.
It was also gathered that the bandits had increased their ransom demand from the initial N60 million per person to N100 million, now totaling N700 million.
Residents said the victims were allegedly killed over the ‘delay’ in raising the ransom demanded by the kidnappers.
Vanguard gathered that a 13-year-old high school student, identified as Folorunsho Ariyo, was among those killed.
On Sunday, news filtered in that the kidnappers, who also operated in some villages in Bwari, had killed one of the six abducted persons to force the family into quickly raising the demanded ransom.
Dutse is a town under the Bwari Area Council of the FCT.
Pushed to the wall, residents of Sagwari Layout have perfected plans to stage a massive protest against the perceived inaction of the government and security agencies in rescuing their kith and kin.
Initially planned for yesterday, the protest was, however, shifted to today as a result of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration.
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