The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, says the nation’s capital has recorded a drop in the incidents of kidnappings and other crimes across the territory in 2024.
The Director of Security Service Department of the FCTA, Adamu Gwary, made this known during the department’s end of year news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
Gwary described kidnappings as one of the major areas of security concern in rural communities across the FCT, particularly in 2023.
“Today, we can beat our chest to say that the number of reported cases of kidnappings have significantly dropped.
“Before now, you can hardly go a week without having a reported case of kidnapping.
“Now, when we check our statistics, you will notice that sometimes a whole month will go by without any incident,” he said.
According to him, one chance crime has drastically dropped compared to the situation in 2023.
The Director further stated that the current operation against the use of tinted glasses across the city has contributed to the declining incidents of one chance.
He also said that the operations against scavengers, street hawkers and beggars also yielded the desired result, adding that the measure had rid the city of criminal elements disguising as scavengers, beggars and street hawkers.
According to him, FCT is safer and secure as at today, when compared with the security situation in early and middle of 2023.
Gwary attributed the successes to the measures put in place by the FCT Administration in collaboration with security agencies and the support of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
He said that the minister has supported the department in ensuring that security agencies in the FCT were effectively supported to improve their operations and coverage.
FCT recorded drop in kidnapping, other crimes in 2024 – Official
