President Tinubu Orders Security Agencies to End Banditry, Kidnapping as Police IG launches FCT Special Squad

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January 18, 2024

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun has launched a special team tagged the ‘Special Intervention Squad’ to reduce the spate of kidnappings in the FCT.

At the launch of the special squad in Abuja, the police boss said the team comprised specially trained mobile police officers who will engage in massive community policing, and provide rapid response to the security breaches in the FCT, while promising that the newly launched Squad will be ‘replicated in neighboring states’.
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Correspondent Nathan Williams reports that outrage had trailed the abduction of six siblings and their father in the Bwari Area Council of Abuja on January 3, 2024.

The kidnappers reportedly killed one of the sisters identified as Nabeehah after their parents could not meet the deadline for payment of a N60 million ransom.