FCTA Constitutes Joint Taskforces on Car Robbery, Violent Crimes

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja 

The Federal Capital Territory has constituted two joint taskforces to interdict against  car robbery syndicates popularly known as one-chance and other violent crimes in the FCT and its environs.

The FCT Police Commissioner, Garba Haruna, who stated this in Abuja while briefing the press after the FCT Security Committee meeting, which was chaired by the FCT Minister, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike.

Haruna said two the separate joint taskforces, which consisted of all the security agencies in the Territory had since commenced operations.

He assured the residents of the FCT of their resolve to rid the Territory of crimes and criminalities.

The Police Commissioner said eight suspected “one-chance” syndicates had been arrested while eight operational vehicles used by them had also been confiscated. 

He assured that the FCT will soon witness notable decline in the activities of the “one-chance” robbery syndicates. 

“We’ve been able to make arrests, eight within the last one week and they are still with us. I paraded them this morning. Eight vehicles, if you go to the FCT Police Command, you will still see them there, all with tinted glasses and those are the vehicles that these “one chance” people use,” Haruna said. 

He added that the Police also carried out raids on mechanic workshops within the city and other flash points, because a lot of people come into the city with no well-defined purpose and end up in uncompleted buildings, mechanic workshops and under the bridges, resorting to criminal activities.

He urged residents to report criminal activities to the security agencies through the emergency response lines, adding that security is everybody’s business. 

He also called on the media to sensitize FCT residents on the trending issue of male or female organ disappearance, which he dispelled as false.

The Police Commissioner disclosed that 62 cases of alleged organ disappearance had been recorded in the FCT, adding innocent lives could have been lost, but for the prompt response of the police and other sister security agencies to douse tension.

He said those who raised the false alarm had been taken to the court where some of them were fined for inciting the public and making false claims.