To consolidate on the successes of the combat in opposition to insecurity within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike has handed over 60 bikes to the Vigilance Group of Nigeria (VGN) and different safety businesses.
Wike, whereas presenting the bikes to safety businesses yesterday in Abuja, additionally gave 30 bikes to the Nigeria Police and 5 every to the Division of State Companies (DSS) and the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
The minister warned that the bikes should not be used within the townships however in hard-to-reach elements of the territory to combat insecurity.
He charged the VGN to utilise the bikes to help the police and different safety businesses in combating crimes notably within the rural areas of the FCT, expressing appreciation to the group for its selfless sacrifices to safe lives and property within the nation’s capital.
“Do not forget that safety businesses requested for specialised bikes that can be used notably within the rural areas. The vigilance groups will use them within the six Space Councils, after which the Police, the SSS, and the civil defence may even wish to do theirs.
“Let me warning, notably to the safety businesses, I don’t wish to hear tales tomorrow that the bikes are nowhere to be discovered once more. I don’t wish to hear such tales, as a result of generally while you give out autos, earlier than you understand it, the autos are not there.
“Please utilise these bikes to combat crimes within the areas you may have recognized. Ordinarily, the chairmen of the world councils must deal with this, however that is our help to them within the councils,” he stated.
Wike pressured that they need to be sure that the bikes are given out to the vigilance groups, saying that they will present logistics for many who are going to make use of the bikes.
“We’re going to present logistics for them. We’ve promised the residents of Abuja and the Space Councils that safety is a precedence for the Renewed Hope Agenda.
“Something we are able to do to guard lives and properties; we’re going to do it. So, I urge you to make use of it nicely, and take it not for business functions. I don’t wish to see the bikes within the metropolis right here. It needs to be used within the rural areas, so that they shouldn’t be used right here.
“We’re already making an attempt to see how we are able to section out bikes right here, so please let it’s taken to the agricultural areas. All the safety businesses, the outposts, give it to them,” he stated.
In response to the minister, they don’t wish to proceed to listen to excuses that the terrain is so unhealthy now that they’ve been given the bikes, saying though the bikes will not be sufficient, they may proceed to offer extra.
“For autos, we consider by the subsequent two weeks, the autos would have been prepared to offer out to the safety businesses. For us, we is not going to relent till those that say we is not going to sleep, they too may even stay awake,” he said.
The commandant- common of the Vigilance Group of Nigeria VGN, Navy Captain Abubakar Umar(rtd), counseled the minister for donating operational bikes to the group to reinforce neighborhood safety within the six space councils of the nation’s capital.