AMAC to inaugurate task force on roadside touts

The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) is to inaugurate a special task force to apprehend touts and extortionists in the area council. Mr Kingsley Madaki, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs to AMAC Chairman, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. He was reacting […]

The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) is to inaugurate a special task force to apprehend touts and extortionists in the area council.

Mr Kingsley Madaki, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs to AMAC Chairman, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

He was reacting to a tragic incident that occurred recently at the Mabushi axis in Abuja, involving a couple and two touts. Madaki condemned the activities of the touts and expressed the council’s condolences to the family of the victims.

He added that the hoodlums were not AMAC staff members or agents working for the council.

He, however, said that the council was taking immediate action to combat such criminal activities in the city centre.

“The executive chairman Mr Christopher Maikalangu has decided to inaugurate a strong taskforce to arrest anybody impersonating the AMAC and extorting money from motorists. These people are not AMAC staff.

“The operation will be done in Area 1 Roundabout, Area 2, Berger underbridge, Jabi, and Banex.

“We are going to fish them out. We will take them to a mobile court and prosecute them immediately; they will find themselves in Kuje correctional centre,” he said.(NAN)