Nigeria accounts for 25% of global kidnappings – AIO
October 4, 2012 by Nike Popoola, Mauritius Leave a Comment

The African Insurance Organisation has said Nigeria accounts for a quarter of kidnap for ransom cases reported worldwide in the last one year.

The Insurance Institute of Mauritius, the official host of the 18th African Reinsurance Forum of AIO, disclosed this in its newsletter on kidnap and ransom insurance cover during the ongoing forum in Balaclava, Mauritius on Wednesday

For this reason, the insurance association said Nigeria had been designated as the global capital for kidnap for ransom due to the huge record of kidnap cases reported in the country yearly.

Delegates from different countries in Africa and across the globe attended the annual forum.

In the report, AIO stated, “The number of kidnaps for ransom in Africa continued to increase. In the first half of 2011, Africa’s proportion of the global total increased from 23 per cent in 2010 to 34 per cent. Nigeria is now the kidnap for ransom capital of the world, accounting for a quarter of globally reported cases.”

It further stated that kidnap and ransom insurance constituted the illegal taking and holding captive of an insured person and was triggered under the policy by a financial demand as a condition of the release of the captive.

According to the organisation, the perils cover kidnap, bodily injury extortion, property damage extortion, product extortion, computer virus extortion, trade secret extortion, political detention and hijack.

According to the newsletter, there has been an upsurge in the demand for terrorism insurance.

The Minister of Business, Enterprises and Cooperatives, Mauritius, Mr. Jim Seataran, welcomed all initiatives by the insurance industries in Africa geared towards the development of the sector and encouraged collaboration between partners both at regional and international levels.

While speaking on how Mauritius had been able to develop its insurance sector with just a population of 1.2 million people, he said insurance penetration in the country was about 5.2 per cent, while its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product was three per cent.

According to him, the sector recorded a growth of 4.5 per cent in 2011 with asset amounting to Rs95.9bn for 21 insurance companies.

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[quote author=semid4lyfe]Nigeria accounts for 25% of global kidnappings – AIO
October 4, 2012 by Nike Popoola, Mauritius Leave a Comment

The African Insurance Organisation has said Nigeria accounts for a quarter of kidnap for ransom cases reported worldwide in the last one year.

The Insurance Institute of Mauritius, the official host of the 18th African Reinsurance Forum of AIO, disclosed this in its newsletter on kidnap and ransom insurance cover during the ongoing forum in Balaclava, Mauritius on Wednesday

For this reason, the insurance association said [size=18pt]Nigeria had been designated as the global capital for kidnap for ransom due to the huge record of kidnap cases reported in the country yearly[/size].

Delegates from different countries in Africa and across the globe attended the annual forum.

In the report, AIO stated, “The number of kidnaps for ransom in Africa continued to increase. In the first half of 2011, Africa’s proportion of the global total increased from 23 per cent in 2010 to 34 per cent. Nigeria is now the kidnap for ransom capital of the world, accounting for a quarter of globally reported cases.”

It further stated that kidnap and ransom insurance constituted the illegal taking and holding captive of an insured person and was triggered under the policy by a financial demand as a condition of the release of the captive.

According to the organisation, the perils cover kidnap, bodily injury extortion, property damage extortion, product extortion, computer virus extortion, trade secret extortion, political detention and hijack.

According to the newsletter, there has been an upsurge in the demand for terrorism insurance.

The Minister of Business, Enterprises and Cooperatives, Mauritius, Mr. Jim Seataran, welcomed all initiatives by the insurance industries in Africa geared towards the development of the sector and encouraged collaboration between partners both at regional and international levels.

While speaking on how Mauritius had been able to develop its insurance sector with just a population of 1.2 million people, he said insurance penetration in the country was about 5.2 per cent, while its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product was three per cent.

According to him, the sector recorded a growth of 4.5 per cent in 2011 with asset amounting to Rs95.9bn for 21 insurance companies.[quote]


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The ''bolded is quite annoying as the prevailing global perception would probably be that kidnapping is common and peculiar to all Nigerians irrespective of all Nigerian ethnic nationalities. The self-acclaimed industrious brothers should apologize to Nigeria and perhaps set up some kind of Truth and Reconciliation Commission to get to uproot the criminal tendencies once and for all instead of expending efforts at boasting exceedingly, paranoia, narcissism, blaming others instead of taking responsibility for their actions, and complaining of marginalization.

cases of kidnap occur mostly in eastern part and some southern parts of nigeria. the boko haram case in the north will soon be over as those top government officials sponsoring it are being fetch out. may The Almighty help us through.

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Forget eastern and whatever part that is responsible for kidnapping!!! We are Nigerians and its bad enough that, we are breaking records in all the bad things. We should endeavour not to compound issues with tribalism.

Must everything bad has Naija in it?
Chai! A whooping 25%!

Rather than point fingers at a certain ethnic group, why not let's critically examine the problem and proffer a lasting solution to it? In the long run, we all loose-not only the ethnic group.

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We know that there are kidnappers in Nigeria but saying we are the global capital of the world is a lie. All these reports paint our country so bad like there aint people living in there - like its all bad. Funny enough, they would still come here to do business in the "global capital of kidnappers". Shior.

Let them go to Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to conduct their survey and they would change their voices. In Brazil, for instance, lumberjacks kidnap villagers that wanna stop them from lumbering timbers in the forest. Venezuelans and Mexicans are professional kidnappers!


Some people swallow reports as this hook, line and sinker without giving it a second thought.

Our govt must also work hard to ensure that lives are properties are secured. Difficult but possible.

God bless Nigeria.


Frawzey

to hell with their statistics jor

Why do we allow tom dickk and mauritius to use Nigeria as scapegoat in all their mumu statistics. UN says this, US says dat, blahbla...Nigeria alone 25%? Then I'm sure all those drugs lords in mexico contribute an astounding 1% to d global record

What solutions has d loud mouth organization proffered to curb d so-called kidnapping. And d mumu leaders of d giant of africa are busy sleeping on duty, wake up to share money then go back to sleep instead of calling all these questionable statistics to order.

If Nigeria accounts for 25% then, Mexico and Colombia should be accounting for 70% between them.

I believe this report. The south east is now officially inducted into Guinness book of records in kidnapping. No thanks to Osisi Kankwu.

ayox2003: We know that there are kidnappers in Nigeria but saying we are the global capital of the world is a lie. All these reports paint our country so bad like there aint people living in there - like its all bad. Funny enough, they would still come here to do business in the "global capital of kidnappers". Shior.

Let them go to Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to conduct their survey and they would change their voices. In Brazil, for instance, lumberjacks kidnap villagers that wanna stop them from lumbering timbers in the forest. Venezuelans and Mexicans are professional kidnappers!


Some people swallow reports as this hook, line and sinker without giving it a second thought.

God bless Nigeria.


Frawzey

Thank you. It was Mexico that came to my mind immediately.

Will you have utter this line should this reports be about suicide bombing which is predominated by northerners?

Live with it bro, everybody must answer him papa name.

We must call a spade a spade.

naija2much: Rather than point fingers at a certain ethnic group, why not let's critically examine the problem and proffer a lasting solution to it? In the long run, we all loose-not only the ethnic group.

Nah, even Mexico is tailing south eastern Nigeria. Just yesterday I posted a story of how some barbarians murdered a businessman, after kidnapping him. Or is it the Cynthia's case or the Spanish doctor that was abducted?



Let start with stats, due you have any?

ogugua88:

Thank you. It was Mexico that came to my mind immediately.

Ji_sun_pack: Will you have utter this line should this reports be about suicide bombing which is predominated by northerners?

Live with it bro, everybody must answer him papa name.

We must call a spade a spade.

Even if so, are the kidnappings in Igboland, the smallest region of the three main tribal regions, enough to make Nigeria the global capital of kidnapping?

ashson: cases of kidnap occur mostly in eastern part and some southern parts of nigeria. the boko haram case in the north will soon be over as those top government officials sponsoring it are being fetch out. may The Almighty help us through.

Ehn tell us what we don't know? Everything in 9ja na geographical location which leads to geopolitical zone and then end in tribalism tu fia akwa! ! !

Pls make such statistics available to GEJ so that he will be communicating facts to us instead frivolous cooked up L....

Ji_sun_pack: Nah, even Mexico is tailing south eastern Nigeria. Just yesterday I posted a story of how some barbarians murdered a businessman, after kidnapping him. Or is it the Cynthia's case or the Spanish doctor that was abducted?



Let start with stats, due you have any?

Of course.

The figures offered by the government diverge from those compiled by the independent Council for Law and Human Rights, or CLDH, which cites a total of 17,889 kidnappings in 2011: an average of 49 a day.

SOURCE

From another source:

MEXICO CITY – An average of 49 kidnappings per day occurred in Mexico in 2011, marking a significant increase from the prior year, the Council for Law and Human Rights, or CLDH, said.

A total of 17,889 kidnappings occurred in Mexico last year, up 32 percent from the 13,505 abductions registered in 2010, the non-governmental organization said.

SOURCE

Excuse me while I look for 2011 numbers for Nigeria. It would have been nice if IIM left us with some numbers rather than their word.

Mind you, IIM said reported cases. Up to 18,000 people report ransom cases to the police? They have faith.

all in a bid to rubbish the Nigerian state

And so what? F*ck their stat...

Good. you see what am saying? smh!

ogugua88:

Of course.



From another source:



Excuse me while I look for 2011 numbers for Nigeria. It would have been nice if IIM left us with some numbers rather than their word.

Mind you, IIM said reported cases. Up to 18,000 people report ransom cases to the police? They have faith.

Ji_sun_pack: Nah, even Mexico is tailing south eastern Nigeria. Just yesterday I posted a story of how some barbarians murdered a businessman, after kidnapping him. Or is it the Cynthia's case or the Spanish doctor that was abducted?



Let start with stats, due you have any?

For Ɣ☺Ʊ Ť☺ mention Cynthia's case shows Ŧħåϯ either Ɣ☺Ʊ don't know what kidnapping is or you just want Ť☺ make ∂ fool out of Nigeria

This is from 2009:

Yakubu Lame, Nigeria’s minister of police, said in July that 512 kidnappings had been reported in the first half of this year, compared with 353 for the whole of last year. Nigeria is in the world’s top eight kidnapping hotspots, alongside war zones and failed states such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, according to U.S. security group Clayton Consultants.

SOURCE

I'll use Wikipedia since recent sources are scarce (no Nigeria on this list):

[quote]Global Kidnapping hot-spots

2006[21]
Mexico
Iraq
India
South Africa
Brazil
Pakistan
Ecuador
Venezuela
Colombia
Bangladesh

SOURCE

Rutgers University crime statistics for 2008. 309 kidnappings that year.
[url=http://www.cleen.org/Summary%20of%20crime%20statistics%20in%20Nigeria%202008.pdf]SOURCE[/url]

THIS IS JUST A BIG LIE...MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA NKO...Just because they want to sell their products doesnt mean they should confabulate false claims

This is no news!

Ji_sun_pack: Good. you see what am saying? smh!

Not at all. The statistics actually go against what you said. If by July 2009, there were 512 kidnappings, let's double it to get an approximation of 1,024 for 2009 in entirety. I do not believe kidnappings have risen 1,747% in Nigeria, as that's the percent increase it would take to surpass Mexico's 17,889. Until IIM releases figures, I'm not believing it.

In no way am I minimizing kidnapping in Nigeria though. It is terrible, but we're not number one.

Okay, away from this. You know we hardly report crime cases in Nigeria. when you do plus and minus, you would realize our figures should be much more bigger than what is reported ( my opinion).

ogugua88: This is from 2009:



I'll use Wikipedia since recent sources are scarce (no Nigeria on this list):

Torch1: This is no news!

Meaning,...

Ji_sun_pack: Okay, away from this. You know we hardly report crime cases in Nigeria. when you do plus and minus, you would realize our figures should be much more bigger than what is reported ( my opinion).

You can't win a case on baseless evidence.

ogugua88:

Not at all. The statistics actually go against what you said. If by July 2009, there were 512 kidnappings, let's double it to get an approximation of 1,024 for 2009 in entirety. I do not believe kidnappings have risen 1,747% in Nigeria, as that's the percent increase it would take to surpass Mexico's 17,889. Until IIM releases figures, I'm not believing it.

In no way am I minimizing kidnapping in Nigeria though. It is terrible, but we're not number one.

Below is my response.

Ji_sun_pack: Okay, away from this. You know we hardly report crime cases in Nigeria. when you do plus and minus, you would realize our figures should be much more bigger than what is reported ( my opinion).

Okay. you won! Happy?

Now to the main issue at hand which is kidnapping for ransom. How about that?

ogugua88:

You can't win a case on baseless evidence.