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Only Good Governance Can Stop Kidnapping by Beaf: 3:59am On Jul 19, 2010
[size=14pt]Only good governance can stop kidnapping [/size]
By Ifedayo Adebayo
July 19, 2010 01:58AM

John Uwaya, a Security and Investigations system expert speaks on the increasing spate of kidnappings in Nigeria and how the situation can be arrested. Excerpts:

Nigerian kidnappers in the context of global criminality

To the best of my knowledge, there are no exact global statistics with which to rank the prevalence of the kidnapping in different countries. However, Mexico is notorious as being first in the world for kidnapping and they are closely followed by Phoenix, in the state of Arizona in the US. With the spate of the scourge here, Nigeria could soon be anywhere between those two territories if drastic measures are not taken to abate the vice.

The link between kidnapping and poverty

From the apparent trend of ransom running into millions of naira, anyone without a relatively high hostage value cannot be kidnapped. However, except in the South East where I learnt a ransom that is as low as N300,000 was paid in a particular case and a place in Delta State, where N200,000 was demanded, I do not think the poor has anything to fear in other parts of Nigeria. Therefore, from majority of recorded kidnap cases, one can safely conclude that kidnapping could continue to be a scourge of the affluent

Combating this recent scourge

Yes, it is possible to stop kidnapping with both long and short-term strategies. For a long lasting solution, there should be good governance to assuage the citizenry’s socio-economic anxieties, which give rise to crime. For immediate results, that is to abate the present scourge of kidnapping, our security apparatus as a nation should be overhauled and; more than ever before, individuals should be more security conscious. Yes, kidnapping is alien to our culture and because politics is about governance, one can safely conclude that the way we play politics in this part of the world has collapsed our internal security system.

First, owing to perceived economic marginalization, militant agitations gave rise to kidnapping in the Niger Delta. After the militants embraced the federal government’s amnesty, political thugs who appear to have been used and dumped by do or die politicians picked up the vice and by the day it appears the army of unemployed youths are further swelling their ranks.

Weaknesses of the security agencies

Judging from the rate and speed at which we resolve kidnap episodes, one can conclude that as a nation, we do not as yet have a system to sustain or confront the menace. Perhaps that is because the plague is relatively alien to our culture. So, let us hope that our government at the three tiers are learning and formulating policies to abate the scourge.

How Nigerians could protect themselves

In the past, the rate of crime and sophistication were relatively low and we never gave much thought to security as a people. But now, every citizen of this country should be more security conscious until the present tide of crime assuages. In a little more detail, individuals should have an eye for what are normal and abnormal activities, movements and people in their immediate environment. Actions that constitute security lapses should be avoided at home and on the road. Vigilante groups or neighbourhood watches can be formed. Of course, all security measures aimed at self-defence or protection should be within the laws of the land and anchored on the Police - the government agency for internal security. Considering that majority of kidnap victims are the wealthy, my advice for Nigerians is to eschew ostentatious living or open display of wealth, at least, during this relatively trying period.

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Re: Only Good Governance Can Stop Kidnapping by Beaf: 4:10am On Jul 19, 2010
To the best of my knowledge, there are no exact global statistics with which to rank the prevalence of the kidnapping in different countries

No statistics? I really don't know if this dude is really any sort of security expert.

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.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/nigeria/091217/nigerias-kidnapping-culture


The countries with the consistently highest risk of kidnap remain Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Somalia.
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Re: Only Good Governance Can Stop Kidnapping by bilymuse: 6:46pm On Jul 19, 2010
Igbo traditional rulers are doing the kidnapping, they should all be sent to jail

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