Kidnapping: Tinubu’s Government is Slumbering
One of the most crucial and primary assignment or responsibility of a government to its people is provision of security. But neither lives nor properties are secured in the administration of President Bola Tinubu. He seems to be “slumbering”.
Kidnapping is the main issue or challenge that the country currently has. Normally, the northern region has always had one security issue or the other. However, insecurity isn’t a feature of the region anymore, it has become a national headache. The most annoying part of it is that the Federal Capital Territory is not safe.
If the seat of power of the federation isn’t safe, what would happen to the federation units? Nigerians are being kidnapped in their homes, places of work, on the roads, and anywhere the kidnappers intend to target their victims. The administration told Nigerians that it would provide security. Where’s it now?
Daily, news of kidnapping litters the internet and all the people can do is to criticise and lament only to hear later that another “unfortunate” Nigerian has been kidnapped.
Some moments ago, a pieces of news spread that a school principal in Kaduna State was gunned down by kidnappers because he reportedly resisted them. He wouldn’t succumb, hence, the gunmen killed him. Two women, who perhaps saw the dead body, surrendered themselves and they were abducted. The same thing has happened in Taraba State.
Enugu travellers who have regained their own freedom paid N2m as ransom even though the defence minister Abubakar Badaru has warned against payment of ransom.
It’s understandable that unarmed civilians are being targeted by the kidnappers. What about the estate of the Nigerian Army? They had audacity to go beyond “bloody” civilians to abduct family members of the army personnel. Nobody is safe from kidnapping.
In the same Abuja, kidnappers attacked the Nigerian Army Estate and took some captives with them. They are now demanding N30m naira.
If not that Tinubu’s government is slumbering, Nigeria’s security shouldn’t have gone this too low. In fact, the fear of high cost of transportation does not stop Nigerians from travelling anymore. They are scared of being victims of kidnapping and killed.
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