FCT police refutes media reports of bandits raiding Kubwa

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has denied story making rounds that bandits invaded the Pipeline Extension area in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of FCT in the early hours of Wednesday.

FCT Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, she said “The attention of The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has been drawn to misleading news making the rounds on some section of the media, about how a number of miscreants stormed and raided Pipeline Extension area in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council in the FCT dispossessing residents of their belongings.

“The Command, therefore, wishes to categorically refute this erroneous and misleading news, stating emphatically that it is baseless, unfounded and promulgated with the malicious intention to instil fear and apprehension in the minds of the residents and the good people of the FCT as a whole.

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“The FCT Commissioner of Police, Babaji Sunday, therefore, urges members of the public to disregard this news and discontinue its propagation in any form, going about their lawful businesses without the fear of harassment or molestation,” the statement read.

Earlier, some media platforms have reported how about 20 bandits stormed the Pipeline Extension area in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council, alleging that the bandits operated for more than one hour with different dangerous weapons and injured the community local vigilantes, after which they robbed the area house-to-house.

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