Increasingly, killings and kidnappings have become necessarily worrisome in Nigeria. It is much so because the trend has defied the largely expressed capacity of security agencies to tame criminalities that appear to be overwhelming the country.
There are several unreported cases of killings and kidnappings which for reasons of ‘inaccessibility’ have eluded official domain despite outcries from immediate communities.
Besides, it has become a dangerous trend in the nation as citizens are being killed by rag-tag terrorists, therefore sleepless nights for endangered citizens.
Only recently, the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar lll and the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, were alarmed at the extra-judicial killings and kidnappings across the country.
The aforementioned underscores the sustained discontent by religious leaders and bodies over the menace of insecurity in the country that has led to the destruction of lives and property in the country.
It is disheartening that despite the federal government’s efforts to tackle the insecurity bedeviling the nation, the challenge has remained a great pain in the neck.
A report by Beacon Intel indicates that in June this year 1,025 people were killed by non-state actors nationwide, also 467 persons were abducted in the period under review.
States in the North West and North East, including Katsina, Borno, Zamfara, and Kaduna, recorded the highest fatalities and abductions the report noted.
Security challenges especially in northern Nigeria have forced many farmers to abandon their fields with a multiplier effects of food crisis across the country amid bitting economic hardships being faced by Nigerians.
While terrorists and bandits continue to make life miserable in the North, IPOB elements are replicating the carnage in the South-east of the country.
AljazirahNigeria, therefore, calls on the nation’s armed forces and other relevant states-owned outfits to assist the regular forces to curtail the disturbing spate of kidnappings and killings in the country.
