Currently, Benneth Igwe, the Commissioner of Police, and Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, are meeting with the Senate.

At approximately 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday, the Senate decided to postpone the day’s first order to a different legislative day so that the two may confer in private in a Committee of the Senate.

As a result, a motion was made in this regard by the Minority Leader and Deputy Senate Leader, Oyelola Ashiru.

Ashiru said, “The minister and the commissioner will brief us on the modalities of security in the FCT.”

On Wednesday, February 28, the Senate summoned Wike and Igwe, the Commissioner of Police, to account for the kidnapping and murder of Chris Agidy, a legislative assistant to Senator Ned Nwoko.

The FCT Minister and the police commissioner were to brief the Red Chamber on the rising number of kidnapping cases in Nigeria’s capital city, the Senate ordered.

The Senate resolution on the kidnapping and murder of Senator Nwoko’s senior legislative assistant, Agidy, came after a motion on the subject.

It is stated that in November 2023, Agidy and nineteen other people were abducted from the Galadimawa neighborhood of Abuja.

After a lengthy discussion on Nwoko’s motion, the Senate also decided that, as a preventative precaution against kidnappings, Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun should immediately boost security patrols and surveillance throughout Abuja and the country.