Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, has warned citizens to stop dropping the command’s emergency numbers with loan shark companies to obtain loans.
Gatekeepers News reports that Garba lamented that some undisclosed citizens including non-state actors have also been engaging the emergency lines.
The CP, however, warned those behind the acts to desist, adding that the police would ensure they are brought to book.
The warning was issued in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, on Friday.
It partly read, “In the same vein, the CP enjoins non-state actors who have been engaging the Police emergency lines in their mischievous posts, aimed at misleading members of the public and those submitting same to obtain loans to desist from such and only use the emergency lines for its intended purpose as deliberate steps will be taken to arrest and prosecute the purveyors of these illegal acts.”
“The Commissioner of Police FCT hereby wish to inform members of the public that contrary to the falsehood making the rounds on media platforms alleging that kidnappers who adorned the Police uniform to perpetrate their illicit acts have kidnapped 17 persons from the Apo area in Abuja is a figment of the author’s imagination as no incident of such happened within the FCT.”
Adeh said the CP urged residents to cooperate with the police for improved service delivery.
“He equally tasks FCT residents to take advantage of the Police Control Room numbers in reporting suspicious activities: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653, and 08028940883.”
