Kidnapping is as old as crime itself. The first time I became familiar with it was in early secondary school when I read crime novels by James Hadley Chase, Harold Robbins and others. These thriller writers helped us hone our writing skills. In those formative years of the 1970s, kidnapping was hardly known in any part of Nigeria.
I can remember very well how Northerners were sneering at those from the South-East about the endemic crime of kidnapping in their area. Is it not an amusing irony that Arewa took over kidnapping and turned it into a factory-scale criminal “enterprise”? Quoting data from Beacon Security and Intelligence Ltd, the paper disclosed that 80 per cent of the 2,583 killings and 94 per cent of the 2,164 abductions in Nigeria took place in the North between January and March this year. In truth, this has been the trend since the rise of Boko Haram in 2009. The report further indicated that 793 were killed in the North-West, 681 in the North-East and 596 in the North-Central.
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