The Commissioner of Police for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Miller Dantawaye, has warned residents, especially women, against accepting free rides from strangers, following recent killings linked to ‘one-chance’ criminal gangs in Abuja.
Dantawaye gave the warning on Friday while receiving a delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), including members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, the NBA Women Forum, and Unity Bar, during a courtesy visit to the FCT Police Command headquarters.
According to the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, the commissioner urged residents to remain vigilant when using commercial vehicles, stressing that personal safety requires collective responsibility, timely information sharing, and public cooperation to dismantle criminal networks operating in the territory.
The police commissioner also sympathized with members of the legal profession over the killing of their colleague, Ms Princess Ochigbo, assuring them that investigations had commenced to identify and arrest those responsible.
Earlier, The Nigerian Bar Association and the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Nigeria, Abuja Branch, described the disturbing resurgence of “one-chance” criminal activities in the Federal Capital Territory as alarming following the killing of a nurse, Chinemerem Chuwumeziem and a lawyer, Chigbo Mediatrix.
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