Joseph Bakare
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday, March 2, has identified kidnapping as a thriving business industry in Nigeria.
Lawan said after the confirmation of Service Chiefs by the Senate,during which he described the situation as unacceptable and asked the new military generals to stop the ugly trend.
Lawan, therefore, gave the new Service Chiefs directive to end mass abduction in Nigeria.
“A situation whereby a group of people will go to a school and take over 300 students away on motorcycles is not accepted.
“Kidnapping without a trace is not acceptable. Something has to give; because, apparently, this is becoming an industry, some people are benefiting from this; and we have to unravel who these people are, and fight bandits and insurgents until we rescue our country.
“Let me also advise the service chiefs that there must be an interagency corporation. There must be an interagency corporation, the army, the air force, they are supposed to have complementary roles.
“We promise them and indeed Nigerians that we support them in whatever way the parliament can come to their support.”
