NYSC kidnap as metaphor for decline into beastiality, by Dele Sobowale

“NYSC kidnap: N950m ransom throws families into panic” – News Report, October 3, 2026.
For the parents of 19 graduates traveling from Ibadan, Oyo State to Owerri, Imo State, there is nothing happy about the month of October. President Tinubu’s Independence Day address to the nation deliberately excluded insecurity among the matters on his national agenda. It was just as well because, his government, like Buhari’s, has failed woefully in discharging the most fundamental responsibility of governments – security of lives and properties.
The youths, packed into two buses, and going in a convoy, were victims of a nation in which government officials, traveling with heavily armed escorts, ...