FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has revealed that inadequate equipment and operational vehicles were hampering ongoing war against banditry and kidnappings in FCT.
Wike during a media chat with journalists in Abuja, also blamed the recent surge in kidnappings in some border communities of the FCT to lack of equipment to track criminals.
The FCT Minister assured residents that the security challenges would soon be addressed following the approval for emergency procurement by President Bola Tinubu.
Wike revealed that President Tinubu approval was for procurement of digital tracking tools and operational vehicles to help halt kidnappers in their tracks.
“So many facilities were not provided and vehicles for the security agencies are not there.
“You cannot believe that equipment to track criminals are not there and when anything happens, security agencies go back to the Office of the National Security Adviser or to the Force Headquarters.
“That is not the way it is supposed to be,” minister said.
Wike noted that security agencies need special equipment to be able to reduce the level of crime, particularly those that will help them to track specific locations of phone users.
“Again, before we came on board, the police had said that they had requested procurement of a certain number of motorcycles where vehicles cannot get to – the remote areas. Some of these areas are mountainous.
“Unfortunately, the motorcycles were not provided, but we have been able to do that now,” he said.
