FCT Minister Orders "Operation Know Your Neighbour"..Hotels To Submit Clients List Daily To SSS

FOLLOWING renewed bombings in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory, with massive killings and wanton destruction of property by members of the Islamist Boko Haram sect, the Minister of FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday, ordered all hotels in Abuja to henceforth forward lists of their guests to the FCT Directorate of Department of State Services, DSS, and the FCT Police Command on a daily basis.

According to him, the hotels have also been mandated to install their individual security cameras within their vicinity and ensure thorough check of all vehicles entering the hotel and their surroundings.

Meanwhile, the FCT Minister, in the directive contained in a statement by his Special Assistant, Media, Nosike Ogbuenyi, directed all residents and residents associations in various parts of the territory to embark on “operation know your neighbor” campaign, adding that the measure was to ensure that all criminally minded elements were detected easily within the FCT.

He said: “The security department of FCTA is to liaise with the various security agencies in the FCT on the modalities for implementing the ministerial directive.”

The Minister also directed all traditional rulers in the FCT to, as a matter of urgency, start conducting periodic meetings with various communities within their domains to take stock of strange faces living with them, as well as report all new comers within 48 hours to the local DPO and DSS office.

“This is in furtherance of Operation know your neighbour campaign,” he added.

He enjoined all FCT residents to be vigilant and cautious of strange objects or movements of persons and vehicles around them, as well as stationary ones, adding “they should report same to the nearest security agencies.”