The Federal Executive Council
(FEC) has directed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam
Bello Muhammad, to summon meeting of the territory’s security council to
address Shi’ite uprisings in the territory.
Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known when he fielded questions from
State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting on Wednesday in
Abuja.
The meeting was presided over by
President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa,
Abuja, on Wednesday.
The minister said: “This matter
came up for discussion and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory has
been asked to take the matter up with his own security committee.’’
Members of the Islamic Movement
of Nigeria (IMN), popularly referred to as Shi’ite, had engaged the security
agencies in violent clashes within and around the FCT since Saturday.
About 26 people were reportedly
killed and many others injured during clashes between soldiers and Shiite group
in Zuba, Mararaba/Nyanya and Abuja in the last three days.
On Tuesday, the FCT Police
Command announced the arrest of some IMN members with 31 bottles of petrol bomb
and other dangerous weapons being ferried into Abuja.
The command said the members’
plot was to attack innocent citizens, including law enforcement agents deployed
to protect lives and property.
lai mohammed pls you could have let another person give out this information ,because every Nigerian takes any news from you as lies ,remember you once confess that your offence in this country is that you talk too much
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