Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has taken a swipe at some politicians, accusing them of foisting tension on the country, using insecurity in order to destabilise the government of President Bola Tinubu.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja on the insecurity ravaging the federal capital city, the minister claimed that some politicians were blowing the matter out of proportion just to create fear.
He said: “Some of these things are political, some politicians are bent on making sure the government does not survive and how do they do it, by creating unnecessary tension, by carrying propaganda that something just happened here and they tell you it has happened 25 times.
“It’s important to understand how our system works, there are those who are blackmailers, who are paid.
“How does my going home on a Friday affect not taking security serious? Is it that the only time I’m not around is when the kidnapping takes place? So that is political.
“When we came here people said everything in Abuja has collapsed, that refuse has taken over the place, no street lights, no road, people were saying so but how many people have come out to commend us that in this five months that we have been in office we are seeing changes?
“Instead they just pick one that has not been solved or appears to be the problem then and forget the one government had put effort and which had yielded result.
“Even when there was insurgency in North-East have anybody canvass for people to carry arms and defend themselves, that there are one or two kidnaps? I have said it you cannot completely stop crime.
“Someone should tell me as a professional, as an expert that there is anywhere in this world that there’s zero crime. Even where they amputate arms and legs there’s still crime.“
Woke faulted the notion that there is insecurity in the whole of FCT because of one or two incidents of kidnapping.
On the issue of mounting CCTV cameras in some places, the former Rivers governor said: “When we were discussing about CCTV in Abuja alongside the Chief of Army staff, someone said the cameras would still be vandalised by the same people in the area in the midnight.”
Wike also lamented that people still remove the manholes on roads being constructed, wondering how many security personnel would be deployed to checkmate such nefarious activities.
He added: “Even when we suggest that we put in some vigilantes, who is sure that some of these vigilantes are not those who are carrying out such actions?”
