Something definitely needs to give in now, otherwise, the
growing incidence of kidnapping of innocent persons by unscrupulous elements
across the country looks good at getting out of hands in no distant time. We
hold this position because, hardly any day passes without one infamous report
or another of hostage-taking of innocent people in one part of the country or
another.
A very disturbing report recently that about eight people,
mostly women and children, were kidnapped within Abuja metropolis is enough to
jolt all Nigerians, not least the government, from illusions into stark
realities. Just recently, a Lagos-bound bus from Port Harcourt, Rivers State,
was shortly after departure, waylaid somewhere at Emuoha town in the state and
fourteen of the vehicle’s occupants were forcefully taken into captivity by
some unscrupulous persons who proceeded to ask for huge ransom of money before
the release of the kidnapped persons.
