Ransom business and Nigerian dilemma

Daily reports on abductions, banditry and general state of insecurity have continued to confirm Nigeria’s current dilemma.
The country and it’s people, it seems, have really become overwhelmed by the seeming sophistication of the criminals that have held us to ransom for years now.
Organised kidnapping, which I think began in Nigeria’s current history with reports of kidnapping of foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta region, has spread to every part of the country and has graduated to kidnapping of school children in schools, worshippers during services, serving army officers and other armed security personnel on duty, unarmed retired officers, uniformed Youth Corps members and of ...