Police tighten security in Abuja’s suburbs
The sectarian
crisis in Jos, the Plateau State Capital, is reverberating in Abuja as
security operatives in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) heightens
patrol to reassure residents of the sation’s capital.
Residents of
satellite towns of Mararaba, Nyanya, Karu, Kuje and Dutse in Bwari Area
Council had sleepless nights as news of reprisal attack by Muslims in
the area took to the air. At about 2:30a.m, one of the new generation
pastors, known as Okoro, called a reporter to complain that movement
around the mosque close to the residence of some of his members forced
them to run to his house, stressing that the reporter should draw the
attention of the police or any security agency. The FCT police
spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, however appealed to residents of the FCT to
cooperate with the police by giving information. He said the command is
already working with the intelligence report at its disposal to keep
itself on top of the security situation in FCT. A police source in
Abuja also confirmed that they have been directed to mount road blocks
in Abuja at strategic places, adding that some senior government
officials, last Tuesday night while coming back from the Christmas
break, called him and were complaining of the new security measures,
which they complained has never been so in the history of Abuja.
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