The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Malam
Muhammad Bello, has condemned the killing of the three suspected traffic
robbers in Dutsen Alhaji area of Abuja last Monday.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Special
Assistant on Media to the Minister, Abubakar Sani, Bello described the lynching
of the three suspected robbers as an act of lawlessness.
He insisted that no group or individual has the
right to take anybody's life the way the young men were burnt to death.
Bello said he had directed the FCT Police to carry out
a thorough investigation and bring those behind the act to book.
The three suspected ‘one-chance’ robbers were
roasted by a mob at Dutsen Alhaji intersection on the Kubwa-Zuba highway in
Abuja after they allegedly robbed a female occupant of a car of her belongings.
The minister, however, assured Nigerians that the FCT
Administration will curb criminal activities in the territory to the barest
minimum.
'The FCT
Administration is not leaving any stone unturned to ensure that the territory
is free of criminality and criminal elements. That is why we are working round
the clock with the security agencies to maintain a 24-hour surveillance round
the city and its environs," Bello said.
He also declared that the administration was
satisfied with the efforts of the security agencies to rid the territory of all
criminal elements particularly traffic robbers, kidnappers and other
lawbreakers wherever they may be.
While calling on Abuja residents to be law-abiding,
the minister warned that any individual or group found taking the laws into its
hands or resorting to self-help would be dealt with in accordance with the
relevant laws.
He also appealed to traditional, community and
religious leaders to step up engagements with their subjects by emphasising the
need for obedience to the laws of the land, and refrain from acts capable of
causing a breakdown of law and order.
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