CURRENT BLOG REPORT According to Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), some politicians are inciting unnecessary conflicts in an effort to bring down President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
He said this while speaking with reporters about the security issues facing the country’s capital.
He added that these politicians escalate little things just to create fear and panic.
“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?” the Minister asked.
“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.”
Wike said that it is unrealistic for anyone to assert that there is insecurity in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) because kidnappings have occurred in one or two locations.
