Police, AEPB to tame scavengers in FCT

By Stanley Onyekwere

In order to curb the activities of scavengers perpetrating criminal activities within Abuja, the nation's capital city, the FCT Police Command has directed its operatives to work in sysnergy with Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and other relevant agencies in the Territory.

The FCT commissioner of police, CP Sadiq Abubakar gave the marching order to divisional police bosses, in Abuja, in furtherance to the command’s sustained fight to rid the capital city of criminal elements.

The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, who disclosed the development, said : “The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Federal Capital Territory has given strict directives to all supervisory Police Officers to synergize with the Abuja Environmental Protection Board and other relevant agencies to rid the capital city of scavengers.

"He has directed that they should be charged to court where arrested and their loot destroyed.” benefit Muslim ummahs and humanity in general.

However, in his keynote lecture on the Theme: Nigeria Within the compass of the 2023 General Elections, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, said the 2023 General Election will definitely mark a turning point for Nigeria, election-wise, as Nigerians struggle at building a nation of their choice.

Fagbemi described 2022 Electoral Act 2022 as a round peg in a round hole towards revolutionising the electoral system, with a view to producing the best leaders and reaffirming that the voice and choice of the people count.

He opined that the Act has pushed the Nigerian electoral process to the standard of other democratic Countries all over the world. It is believed that if the provisions of this Act are judiciously implemented, Nigerians will enjoy the exercise of their political franchise before and after the 2023 general elections, and the country as a whole will be better for it.

Most of the discussants identified key areas critical to examining efficiency towards a free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria; and practices towards an effective presentation of election petitions under the extant electoral laws, in the wake of the country’s 2023 elections.

One of the discussants, Ahmed Raji decried that the increasing huge number of election petitions cycle is a sign of under development of any society, hence the need for stakeholders to focus more on discouraging the trend.

Highpoint of the event, which had in attendance top Legal practitioners, including Dr. Hassan Liman (SAN), MULAN’s pioneer president, and currently member, President’s Advisory committee of the Association, Adekola Mustapha,National President, MULAN, Kazeem Olaniyan, was the award presentation to the awardees, for their selfless service and contributions to the advancement of the Association.