No fewer than 1,570 Nigerians were kidnapped between January and November 2020 in 366 reported cases, Daily Trust investigation reveals.

The kidnappers raked in over N311 million from payment of ransom by relatives of their victims within this period, though they demanded over N6.9 billion from their victims. The money paid did not include millions of naira paid by some families who chose to keep quiet because of threats or simply to have their peace.

Daily Trust reports that there has been an upsurge in kidnapping in Nigeria with 41 cases reported in November.

The trend has spread to some tertiary institutions in Kaduna State while the Federal Capital Territory was also not spared with 31 reported cases in 11 months.

Major arteries including the Abuja-Kaduna and Abuja-Lokoja roads have turned to kidnappers’ hotspots, raising fears in commuters. The young and old have been victims.

From the seven-year-old boy kidnapped in Katsina for which N3m ransom was demanded, to the 60-year-old Zainab Musa kidnapped in Niger State, many Nigerians are living in fear of the unknown.

Security operatives were also kidnapped within the time under review. Among the victims were 12 Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) seized in November, 10 Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) officials and four officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) who were also kidnapped in September and February, respectively. An officer of the Department of State Security (DSS) was also kidnapped in September.

Daily Trust recalled that the Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), governors of the North East, the Afenifere from the South West, among other groups and individuals have all expressed disgust over the deteriorating security situation in the North and the country at large.

Source: https://dailytrust.com/1570-people-abducted-in-11-months

Buhari is working.
Nigerians are seeing the difference

more is still to come under this clueless administration

.. Buhari the securer of lives and properties

It is well

APC change.

Buhari has failed the north!!

Borno, Zamfara, kastina and Kaduna villages are still not safe.

People are being kidnapped and sometimes killed by Bandits.

2023 is close...

The north would shock the world!!

#SecureNorth

HenryThegreat1:
APC change.

both Apc and PDP are all criminals with different criterias.

It's time to look inwards and vote competence not party

In some states in Nigeria just wearing fine cloth alone is enough to kidnap u, in cross rivers state they kidnap even primary school teachers earning 30k.

Our security system has failed the police can't do its job, let the fg decentralize security, we need to have both state and federal police. Federal police should be only allowed to comein in cross border crimes or situations where a state can't handle a situation.

Nigerian police has failed whole fully

Armageddon is here at last! "Think you're in heaven but you're living in HELL"!

Awa fierce gan to ba n wa mi

The government is working, the kidnappers even get hotspot, and police never connect abi their WiFi no dey work.. but if na to download bribe and brutality on civilians, e go work..

Abi both parties dey collabo make money

This kidnapping business is booming more than oil..... The bandits are having a free day.... The government should have a peace meeting with the bandits/kidnappers once again with the Nigerian army and police in attendance and settle them with money for peace.... I could remember this novel by Ken follett, the evening and morning, where the king of England have to be paying the Vikings a huge amount of money to prevent them from ransacking England.... At the end, it attracted more of the Vikings...

Buhari' has failed Borno villagers!

Buhari has failed zamfara, kastina, Kaduna! Villages are being raid! People are being kidnapped!
Buhari has failed the north!!

Our villagers must be protected not just the cities!!

okay

Hmmm

Fake news.

They just want to tanish the image of our darling daddy,says our resident zombies.

If this news is true,why did the relatives of the people kidnapped stayed quiet over such incident,says south south deputy chief of zombies.

Where is the proof of payment by relatives,says north central union of zombies.

Ohanaeze Imo branch of zombies, courtesy of the supreme Court go...,rejects such fake news.Nigeria is peaceful and booming economically.

@NeddStark this is fake news too?
Yeye paid clowns.

J

what did our security agencies do then and how many have been rescued? dats the questions we should be asking the police, not the IGP threatening to stop protest in any form in the country again!

And we can't say what will happen between now and Yuletide season, insecurity everywhere.

Arewa yenefer and yerimo oya make una come defend una Master lolz zombies

The kidnappers Police are cashing out big time

1570 northerners / Boko Haram sympathizers

I said it.

This is Just the reported cases... Alot are unreported..... things are real bad.... # secure North

nothing surprises me again in dis country

Fake new.
Don't allow Lie Mohammed hear this.

Nigeria :3rd most terrorised country on earth

This is to tell you how unsafe this shithole is.