By The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, has decried the cost of fuelling patrol vehicles in the nation’s capital.
This is because he complained that there are fewer vehicles and drivers to patrol the nation’s seat of power. Speaking during the visit of the AIG in charge of zone 7, Adebowale Williams, to the command on Thursday, Garba said fueling the patrol vehicles of the command to patrol around the city had become a “big challenge”.
He said, ” The challenges of the Command are not but limited to the following; Inadequate manpower; especially drivers, inadequate patrol vehicles and fuelling. Fuelling the patrol vehicles to undertake round-the-clock patrol of the City has become a big challenge. ““They have been involved in theft and destruction of critical infrastructure in the FCT. In the last two months, 212 scavengers have been arrested and arraigned in court,” Garba added.