Bandits and other criminal elements have in recent months held sway in some parts of the FCT, killing and kidnapping others.
But Wike told a gathering at the flag-off of the construction of Paikon-Kore Road in the Gwagwalada area of the FCT that his administration is on course to flush out criminals.
President Bola Tinubu came to power last year promising to address insecurity in Nigeria, including jihadists in the North-East, criminal militias in the North-West and a flareup of intercommunal violence in central states, but critics say the violence is out of control.
Nigerian risk consultancy SBM Intelligence said it had recorded three thousand nine hundred and sixty four people abducted in Nigeria since Tinubu took office in May.
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