The House of Representatives on Tuesday summoned the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammad Musa Bello, over insecurity in Abuja.
The resolution was passed during a plenary session after the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved by Deputy Minority Leader, Toby Okechukwu.
The FCT has recorded surge in the activities of gunmen in recent weeks.
On November 2, bandits invaded staff quarters of the University of Abuja and kidnapped four staff and their children.
Okechukwu said urgent steps must be taken to protect lives and property in the FCT.
“Abuja has never been as unsafe as it is today due, among others, to the influx of bandits and other criminals, lack of modern security infrastructures in the city centre and the satellite towns, and non-maintenance of available ones, including CCTV installations and as little as streetlights,” he said.
“There are concerns that the poor city management bedevilling the FCT is resulting in obvious disorderliness and widespread deterioration, with serious concern the indiscriminate allocation of lands without a matching infrastructural development; and acute lack of infrastructure in the satellite towns and the resort by tax-paying citizens to self-help in territory that should ordinarily model rural development in Nigeria.”
He said infrastructure in the nation’s capital has dilapidated, adding streetlights have been left unrepaired.
The lawmaker also accused the FCT administration of allocating lands in green areas “in clear breach of the FCT Master Plan”.
