The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has intensified efforts to strengthen security presence in rural and border communities, as a major step toward fulfilling the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s pledge to decentralise policing and bring safety closer to the grassroots.
This initiative follows months of sustained insecurity that plagued several parts of the FCT between late 2023 and early 2024, when communities in Abaji, Kwali, and Bwari suffered repeated abductions, bandit incursions, and activities of kidnappers.
The situation which led to the kidnapping, maiming and killings of scores of victims, especially those along border communities, prompted the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to order the immediate provision of two additional divisional police stations across the six area councils.
A visit to some of the new divisional police stations at Tukashare and Saburi both in AMAC, Bako in Kwali, Yaba in Abaji, Giri in Gwagwalada, Ushafa in Bwari Area councils, show significant progress in the ongoing construction.
At Saburi, in Abuja Municipal Area Council, the project is nearing completion with visible finishing works going on at the station block and adjoining residential quarters.
It was gathered that the complex consists of a main administrative building with offices for the Divisional Police Officer, his secretary, and other ranks, as well as two holding cells equipped with in-built toilets and bathrooms. The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has intensified efforts to strengthen security presence in rural and border communities, as a major step toward fulfilling the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s pledge to decentralise policing and bring safety closer to the grassroots.
This initiative follows months of sustained insecurity that plagued several parts of the FCT between late 2023 and early 2024, when communities in Abaji, Kwali, and Bwari suffered repeated abductions, bandit incursions, and activities of kidnappers.
The situation which led to the kidnapping, maiming and killings of scores of victims, especially those along border communities, prompted the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to order the immediate provision of two additional divisional police stations across the six area councils.
A visit to some of the new divisional police stations at Tukashare and Saburi both in AMAC, Bako in Kwali, Yaba in Abaji, Giri in Gwagwalada, Ushafa in Bwari Area councils, show significant progress in the ongoing construction.
At Saburi, in Abuja Municipal Area Council, the project is nearing completion with visible finishing works going on at the station block and adjoining residential quarters.
It was gathered that the complex consists of a main administrative building with offices for the Divisional Police Officer, his secretary, and other ranks, as well as two holding cells equipped with in-built toilets and bathrooms.