Ransom payments could sustain bandit networks – IHRC-RFT

The International Human Rights Commission–Relief Fund Trust (IHRC-RFT) has warned that paying ransoms to criminal groups could help sustain bandit networks while exposing innocent citizens to continued abductions, violence and trauma.
The organisation called on the Federal Government to intensify security operations, dismantle bandit networks and cut off their sources of funding to tackle banditry and kidnapping across the country.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Nigeria chapter of IHRC-RFT, through its Country Director, Abdullahi Bakoji Adamu, said it supported the position of Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, on the dangers of ransom payments to criminal groups.
The organi...