A driver Chukwuma Okeke 27 was on Thursday sentenced to One
year Imprisonment by the Yaba Magistrate court for abducting a maid of 15 years
from his employer. He pleaded guilty to the charge of abducting the girl with
the intent to have sexual intercourse with her.
Also, a house maid employed
barely 24 hours abducted her employers three children, Orekoya boys and
demanded for a ransom of Fifteen Million Naira which was paid but unfortunately
for this evil maid she was later apprehended by the men of Nigerian Police
Force.
Nigeria
has become one of the kidnapping capital in the world, the rate at which people
are being kidnapped in Nigeria on daily basis is so alarming that it has
affected the country in all aspects, from foreign investors not wanting to come
to Nigeria even those already in the system are rounding up their businesses
out of the fear of being kidnapped.
This has
no doubt affected good governance in the country; I have not seen any form of
distraction that is greater than this and it affecting the present
administration.
Kidnapping
started in the southern part of the country as a means to get the attention of
the government to degradation of people in the Niger-Delta area of the country
but unfortunately it has gone beyond that today, as it is now seen as a means
of making money by demanding ransom from families of the victim of kidnap, it
is also used for political reasons to mention a few.
What are
the factors encouraging kidnapping in Nigeria?
Failure
of the government to provide basic amenities for the citizen is the number one
factor, as we can see it was because of this that kidnapping started in the
Niger Delta making militant a profession. Unemployment is another,one millions
of youths graduates yearly without jobs, the use of unemployed youths as
political thugs by our politicians is a major contributor, they most time share
guns to them to carry out these duties and these guns are never retrieved from
them. Our security system is nothing to write home about.
The
National Assembly (House of Representatives) has put forward a new law
prescribing a life jail term for anybody found guilty of kidnapping and
abduction of any kind, ten years for anyone abetting the crime.
Edo state
government under the leadership of Comrade Adams Oshiomole has signed a bill
into law amending the kidnapping law 2009 as amended by the state house of
assembly which now prescribes death penalty for anyone who is involved in any
form of kidnapping.
We hope
other states that are yet to pass kidnapping law will do so at the earliest
possible time maybe this will deter people from engaging in kidnap.
We appeal
to the government to put the citizens first, by so doing crime rates will
reduce drastically in our country.
NIGERIA
MY COUNTRY!!!
Thank
you.
Oyenike
Alliyu-Adebiyi Llb(hons)Bl
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