TRAVELLING on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway has become an unspeakable nightmare for Nigerians, thus highlighting the deteriorating state of security in the country. Last Monday, dare-devil gunmen kidnap...
TRAVELLING on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway has become an unspeakable nightmare for Nigerians, thus highlighting the deteriorating state of security in the country. Last Monday, dare-devil gunmen kidnapped the Chairman, Universal Basic Education Commission, Muhammad Abubakar and his daughter; they also shot his driver dead. Many others have been declared missing.
So dreadful is the highway that even military and other security personnel now avoid it, preferring instead, to travel with the new Abuja-Kaduna rail transport. The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in a pragmatic expression of his disgust, on Tuesday redeployed the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Abdulrahman and five others.
Gun-induced security breaches have become routine because of the proliferation of small and light weapons. Since the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament raised the alarm in 2012 that 350 million of such weapons, representing 70 per cent of the 500 million in West Africa, were circulating in Nigeria, the authorities ought to have reacted with a pragmatic policy, mindful of the fact that the country has a Frankenstein monster to confront.
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