The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of Nigeria Police has come out to refute the trending story on social media that bandits invaded the Pipeline Extension area in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the FCT in the early hours of Wednesday.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, in a statement made available to pressmen in Abuja, FCT Police commissioner Babaji Sunday stated that; “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 Territory as a whole.
“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.
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