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By Hassan Idris The surge of kidnapping, insurgency, and Boko Haram incidents in recent time in Nigeria has been overwhelmingly alarming. This perpetual act of criminality is perpetrated by well established and emerging criminal groups as well as individual criminals for different degrees of reasons. The kidnapping of Chibok and Dapchi girls among other prominent cases of kidnapping orchestrated by the Boko Haram sect is a greater dirge that has remained in the hearts of many Nigerians. The killings of our fathers, mothers, children; raping of our women and destruction of properties in Borno, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, and Kaduna by armed-Bandits is painfully in the hearts of many Nigerians. Kidnapping cuts across all the regions in Nigeria and anyone could be kidnapped at any time depending on the immediate security situation.The reasons for kidnapping tends to differ; many of these criminals indulge in the act of kidnapping for pecuniary gains and achievements. ....
Yushau Shuaib: Is Katsina the new haven of terror-banditry in Nigeria Published Was it not strange that the abduction of Kankara boys occurred on the day President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Daura, his hometown, in Katsina, on a private visit? It is even more curious that the abductees were released on his birthday. Buhari last visited the state in December 2019, when he inaugurated construction work on the N18billion University of Transportation, Daura. While Borno in the North-East is the epicentre of Boko Haram terrorism, Zamfara in the North-West seems to be the hotbed of armed banditry, and Katsina, the home state of the President is fast becoming the haven of the fusion of notorious gangs of terror-bandits. Recently, terrorists massacred over 45 farmers at Zabarmani in Borno. Bandits kidnapped an Imam and 17 Muslim worshipers while observing congregational prayer at Dutsen Gari mosque in Zamfara before the terror-bandits abducted large population of students in ....