The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Mr Haruna Garba, has warned Nigerians to desist from using the command’s emergency numbers to obtain loans from loan shark companies.
According to him, some undisclosed persons drop the command’s emergency numbers with loan shark companies to obtain loans with non-state actors engaging the emergency lines.
Garba, who disclosed this in a statement issued by the command spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, on Friday warned that the police would ensure they are brought to book.
“In the same vein, the CP enjoins non-state actors who have been engaging the Police emergency lines in their mischievous posts, aimed at misleading members of the public and those submitting same to obtain loans to desist from such and only use the emergency lines for its intended purpose as deliberate steps will be taken to arrest and prosecute the purveyors of these illegal acts,” he said.
Garba also denied a viral report that kidnappers wore police uniforms to abduct 17 residents in the Apo area of Abuja.
“The Commissioner of Police FCT hereby wish to inform members of the public that contrary to the falsehood making the rounds on media platforms alleging that kidnappers who adorned the Police uniform to perpetrate their illicit acts have kidnapped 17 persons from the Apo area in Abuja is a figment of the author’s imagination as no incident of such happened within the FCT,” the statement added.
The CP urged residents to cooperate with the police for improved service delivery, and tasked FCT residents to take advantage of the Police Control Room numbers in reporting suspicious activities: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653, and 08028940883.
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