Lockdown: FCTA Enforcement Team warns residents against use of fake exemption permit
Exemption
By Salisu Sani-Idris
Abuja, April 14, 2020 (NAN) The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Enforcement Team has warned residents against forging exemption permits for the purpose of moving around in defiance to the lockdown order.
Chairman of the team, Mr Ikharo Attah, gave the warning during a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
He decried the alarming rate at which residents forged exemption permit.
Attah said that many people who cloned the permit have been arrested and would be made to face the law.
“The most annoying aspect of the situation, is the fact that many people caught with the fake permits were not on any essential duty,” he said.
Attah warned residents to desist from the fraudulent act, adding that anyone found with fake and cloned exemption permit would be arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law.
He noted the remaining days of the lockdown in FCT would be very tough for defaulters,adding the security agencies have created a synergy for effective enforcement of the directive.
” We are really having a tough time here, ensuring people comply to the federal government order but the rate at which people are coming out with fake pass tag is very much alarming.
” We have arrested so many of them who photocopied and laminated the fake permits.
” We are moving them to the office of FCT police Commissioner. It is even more annoying knowing that many of the people defaulters are not in any essential service.
“They just fake the tags to be moving around instead of staying at home.
” In the coming days, it is going to he very tough, seeing what the Commissioner and his men has done. With the support of the military, it is going to be a total show of force.
” If you look at the curve of covid-19, FCT’s curve is going down, which mean that we are working hard here, and we need to keep it that way, so that we can reopen the city.
” These people with the forged permits are going to face the full wrath of the law. Those who are not on any essential duty should stay at home”, he warned (NAN)
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Edited by Angela Okisor/Sadiya Hamza