Emmanuel Onwubiko: Bandits and their political patrons
Precisely a week ago, the Emmanuel Ogbeche-led Abuja chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists held a town hall parley on the spread of insecurity in Nigeria with greater emphasis on the rising crime rate in Abuja and other parts of the Federal Capital Territory.
I also pointed to the growing menace of ‘1-chance’ armed robbery scenarios in the Federal Capital Territory and the rampant cases of burglary, car theft and other manifestations of criminal tendencies even as I made a profound statement calling on the government including the private sector to fix the collapsed crime-fighting architecture in Nigeria to stave off the coming security Armageddon.
In Imo state, I saw a bunch of gun-wielding police operatives who mounted over one hundred roadblocks all around the major link roads leading to all the three senatorial zones of Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe. These police operatives have one thing in common – extortion of all road users and especially the commercial vehicle operators.
State-controlled policing institution if effectively administered can minimize crimes. But President Muhammadu Buhari refused to sign the constitutional amendments into law. Kidnapping and abduction are used interchangeably to describe the forceful taking or confinement of another against their will for several illegal purposes. Some criminal legislation in Nigeria defines the terms as different sides of a crime while in some others, the age or state of mind of the victim is the distinguishing factor.
Where death occurs as a result of the commission of the offence of kidnapping, the offender shall be liable on conviction to death sentence. hanging; lethal injection; or as the Court may direct.”
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