FCT Minister Orders Registration Of Aliens In Abuja

 

 Odogwuemekaodogwu.com reports that shortly after Governor Rochas Okorocha was attacked for insinuating identifying Hausa residents in Imo state sequelto Boko Haram insurgency , the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, has directed all the six area council chairmen in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to begin the registration of all aliens in their respective area councils.

They are required to do so in conjunction with officials of the Nigerian Immigration Services.

The Minister, who gave the directive, during an enlarged security meeting of the FCT which he presided on Thursday in Life Camp, Gwarinpa, Abuja to review the security situation in the nation’s capital also instructed the council chairmen to continue with their regular security meetings in their respective areas with the traditional rulers, community leaders, Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and other stakeholders.

He restated his earlier directive for the strengthening of security at all shopping malls and markets in the FCT, particularly in the metropolis, while assuring that the FCTA was liaising with appropriate security agencies towards the re-opening of the EMAB shopping Plaza scene of last week’s bombing to normal business activities.

However, the owners and management of the shopping plaza have been given standard security requirements to be put in place before the plaza can be re-opened for business activities.

Senator Bala Mohammed equally directed that the shopping centres and plazas along the crowded Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2 and along all other busy corridors in the city and the satellite towns be similarly made to comply with the new security templates.

The ownership and management of the plazas are also required to cooperate fully with the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and other agencies to checkmate hawking around the shopping centres, especially in areas that are considered soft targets for terrorist attacks. 

The Minister also directed the FCT Road Traffic Services Department and the Police to eject all persons carrying out commercial or begging activities on the various pedestrian bridges.

Giving an update on the number of casualties following the EMAB Plaza terror attack, the FCT Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr Demola Onakomaiya said the casualty figure has risen to 24, following the death of three more victims on admission in hospitals. He said two victims died in the National hospital, while one died in Maitama District hospital.

Those at the meeting include the FCT Minister, Senator Mohammed, the Minister of State, Chief Olajumoke Akinjide, the Permanent Secretary, FCT, Mr John Chukwu, the Chairman of FCT Council of Chiefs and the Ona of Abuja, Alhaji Mohammed Baba Yunusa, the heads of the various security agencies in the FCT including military, the Police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Brigade of Guards, the Nigerian Immigration Services and others.

 Nigerian Tribune