Gwarimpa Crisis: Monarch Seeks Police Assistance Against Drug Peddling  

The district head of Gwarimpa in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Umaru Bayaro, has appealed to the FCT Police Command to support the community leaders to rid the area of drug peddlers.

Bayaro made the call yesterday at a security meeting organised in the community to forestall the type of crisis that rocked the community last week, which claimed the life of an innocent young man.

The monarch, who lamented that the genesis of the crisis was because drug peddlers have taken over the community, also called on the leaders of Miyetti Allah to call their people to order and ensure that residents of the community live in peace and unity.

He said that if the drug peddlers are allowed to continue with their illicit activities, it would affect the future of innocent children growing up in the community, who might be forced to become part of them.

“We all came together to fight a common enemy which is the drug dealers that have been perpetrating their activities in our community. It is not far-fetched that if we did not do that, they will not only destroy our children, but they will destroy society and so we had to come out headlong to fight against it.

“This is not the first place that this is happening, that when you want to protest genuinely against bad things there are always bad elements that will swing into action and then take charge or hijack the process. That was the genesis of the crisis last week.

“The battle against these drug peddlers is for us to fight them collectively. But, in return, some bad elements came into the midst of the genuine protesters to start destroying things. It was not supposed to be seen as a political or ethnic crisis that was targeted at any ethnic group. It was a fight against drug peddlers in the Gwarinpa community.

“So, in this meeting, I am calling on the leadership of Miyetti Allah to go back and address their people. They should give them a serious warning that the security agencies have been permitted to take action against anyone who perpetrates or violates the laws of the land. They will have to deal with that person squarely,” he said.