Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said some politicians are creating unnecessary tension just to sabotage President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government.
Wike said this while speaking with journalists in Abuja about the security issue in the country’s capital.
According to Wike, some politicians always blow things out of proportion to create 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. Even where they amputate arms and legs there’s still crime.“
The former Rivers State governor stated that it is difficult for people to say because kidnapping has happened in one or two places therefore there is insecurity in the whole of FCT.
He spoke about the fear of mounting CCTV cameras in some places because of vandalization.
“When we were discussing about CCTV in Abuja alongside the Chief of Army staff, someone said the cameras would still be vandalized by the same people in the area in the midnight.”
He also cited roads being constructed and people still go and remove the manholes and asked how many security personnel would mount the road to check those who are coming to steal manholes.
“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?“ he added.
