The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has banned the sales and use of all kinds of Fireworks, Fire-crackers, Knockouts in the FCT.
In a statement made available to pressmen by the Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT Police Command, DSP Josephine Adeh, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Babaji Sunday, noted that the order is part of a proactive move by the Police to sustain the relative peace in the FCT, and adequately contain crimes and criminality, particularly ones peculiar to the end of the year and the Christmas and New Year festivities.
According to the statement, Babaji noted that “the use of knockouts, others, aside from constituting nuisance and disturbance of public peace, is also capable of causing unnecessary fear and apprehension and other dangers associated to its usage in the harmattan period. This is in addition to the possibility of providing an escape space for criminals after the commission of a crime.
“To this end, the CP has ordered all Divisional Police Officers and Heads of Police Units within the FCT to carry out due enforcement of the ban and ensure that anyone who violates the order is arrested and brought to book.”
The FCT Police boss also called on parents and guardians to impress on their children and wards to desist from the sales and use of fireworks, firecrackers, knockouts, others as the ban is in the best interest of all.
He warned persons trading in these banned items to seek alternative but legal ventures noting that in the FCT, it will not be business as usual.
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