CITY NEWS Boko Haram planning to enter Bello suspends all chieftaincy related Abuja through Abaji – Ona of Abaji appointments in FCT

The Ona of Abaji and chairman of the FCT council of traditional rulers, Alhaji Adamu Baba Yunusa, has raised alarm that suspected Boko Haram members are planning to enter Abuja through Abaji.

The Ona made the revelation when he received the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of north-central, Shu’aibu Gambo, at his palace on Friday.

“We have heard that Boko Haram members are planning to attack the FCT and the plan is to infiltrate and carry out the attack from Abaji. We will be the first casualty and we will need the police now more than ever,” the traditional ruler said.

He also drew the attention of the police DIG over the recruitment of graduates into the police force, which he said, the natives of the territory are not given consideration.

“In fact, the big men will bring their candidates from other states to take the slots of FCT natives. I want to appeal to the IGP to consider the natives of the territory,” he added.

Responding, the DIG, Shu’aibu Gambo, promised to relay the request to the IGP, Idris Abubakar, on the need for more recruitment into the Nigerian police.

“The plan is that in the next six years, the police should be allowed to recruit 30,000 police men every year to meet the security challenge confronting the nation,” he said. Following complaints, petitions and legal tussles among interested parties, the FCT Administration has suspended all chieftaincy related appointments in the traditional institutions.

This was announced in a recent circular released by the Office of the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye.

Ajakaiye stated that the issues relating to the appointment and installation into traditional positions in the FCT have sometimes led to situations that are inimical to peaceful co-existence in some of these communities.

“It had become pertinent to emphasize the provision of the FCT Chiefs (Appointment & Deposition) Act, 2007, which states that “upon the death, resignation or deposition of any chief or traditional Ruler, of a kind referred in sub-section (1)of this section, the minister may approve as the successor to such office of a chief or traditional ruler as the case may be, by any person appointed in that behalf by the persons charged with the responsibility of appointing persons to the office of chief or traditional ruler in accordance with the provisions of any order made by the minister after consultation with the Department of Local Government Administration,” the circular stated.