By Ben Adoga
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello has charged security, agencies in the nation’s capital to be bold and take tough decisions while sustaining operations through out the period of transition and beyond in public interest.
He particularly urged them to be passionate and diligent in their daily endeavours.
Bello spoke through his Senior Special Assistant on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah on Tuesday, during a valedictory session with the team drawn from the Police, DRTS FRSC, AEPB and other para military agencies in the FCT.
He specifically charged then to free traffic at AYA-Nyanya gate way of the FCT and the Gwarinpa-Dutse Alhaji- Bwari road.
He commended them for working as a team under his stewardship roam in effort to sanitise the Territory.
The minister noted that every single day, people keep pouring into Abuja, and their work as security, traffic and environmental managers get more complex, because as the city is growing, and traffic management is becoming more challenging, and traffic management is unending.
“Abuja is getting complex because people from Lagos, Port Harcourt, Edo, Kano, Keffi, Zamfara and Uyo are constantly moving down here, and we must constantly manage traffic as it is our work. The crowd coming into the city is not a bad omen, as people migrate to where they believe in, so traffic and crowd in a city shows that people believe that city is working.
“And traffic management is not rocket science. Every single day a new problem will rise that would require officials from FRSC, DRTS, Police, AEPB or even the Military to rush and solve. So, you must find that particular solution to it. That’s the truth.
“Despite the hectic nature of ensuring sanity in the capital city, you worked so hard, and it is not finished, and it will not be finished. Please don’t be afraid to take tough decisions in the nation’s capital traffic management system. Once you know that it is good, take them in the interest of the society.
“So, the Minister has asked me to tell you that even if we are going, please be committed to your work even within the transition period to when new Minister will come. Just be passionate and do your work diligently, and when the new Minister comes, support him or her as you have all supported us to all to Abuja, and it has been very memorable”, Attah quoted the Minister saying.
In his remark, Director in charge of Enforcement at AEPB, Kaka Bello, noted that what the outgoing Bello-led FCTA did was laying a very good foundation towards sustenance of the operations they have carried out, and assured that they will keep the flame burning till the incoming administration takes off and continue.
Similarly, DPO in charge of Nyanya, CSP Alhassan A. Majia, opined that the Minister through Attah, has brought the security agencies to work together in the discharge of their respective duties in the FCT.
“I have worked with four Ministers and about six Permanent Secretaries, so I have seen a lot things as a Police Officer and working with civil servants but I have never seen a wonderful person like you, and I have learnt to always be humble and carry out responsibility with passion and teamwork.
“You have demonstrated that agencies working together achieves more result.”
