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Insecurity And Insecurity And Kidnappingin Nigeria
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Furthermore, insecurity and kidnappingfor ransom posses serious threat
to the well ordering and functioning of the society and many factors
were perceived as its causes. In Nigeria, such factors include
corruption among the Nigeria Police Force (Adibe, 2009), unemployment,
poverty and leadership failure (Diara, 2010), failure of the government
to provide basic amenities and the use of cult gangs and militants by
politicians in electoral processes (Okengwu, 2011: 1), access to large
quantities of small arms and light weapons (International
Crisis
Group, 2006 as cited in Iduh, 2011: 126). This study will lay emphasis
on the perception of people in Imo state Senatorial District concerning
insecurity and kidnappingin Nigeria. There is no doubt that insecurity
and kidnappingin Nigeria is in part, a syndrome from many parts of the
world- Iraq, the Philippines, Afghanistan, India, Russia, Palestinian
Territory, Mexico, Nepal and American (Abati, 2009). Episodes of ransom
insecurity and kidnappingin the annals of American history include the
case of four year old Charlie Ross in 1874 (Cyntrax, Wilson and Wilson
as cited in Ugwuoke, 2010 :197) and Lindbergh case in 1932 ( Allison,
2000: 110). In the Lindbergh’s case, Lindbergh’s child was the centre of
a plot, the suffering of the child’s parents, and the difficulties of
the police enquiry, were exacerbated by widespread speculation,
misinformation and serial random notes (Alexander and Klein 2009: 16).
Alexander and Klein further noted that in the 17th century, children
were stolen from their families and exported to North American colonies
as servants and labourers, hence, ‘kid’ meaning ‘child’ and ‘nap’ or
‘nab’ meaning ‘to snatch’. Insecurity and kidnappingwas therefore
connected to the staling of children but the word has come to be used
interchangeably with both children and adults. Nevertheless, past
account of insecurity and kidnappingrevealed that death penalty was
ordered as a punishment for insecurity and kidnappingin ancient Rome
when the Emperor Constantine (AD 315) became so alarmed by the incidence
of the crime (Akpan, 2010: 33).
However, the early African societies
were marked with the incidence of slave trade. In this vein, Ugwu (2010
: 2)., asserted that the weak and the poor were captured and sold into
slavery. Ugwulebo (2011: 26) noted that during the colonial era, the
colonialists came to some parts of the world, such as Africa, took their
able bodied men and women and sold them to far away nations who needed
human labour for their plantation and other services. (Onimode as cited
in Ugwulebo, 2011: 26-27) had noted that gun powder, gin, mm and other
materials were offered by the Europeans to the Africans in exchange for
slaves shipped
annually from ports in Nigeria. Therefore, slavery and insecurity and kidnappingwere like two sides of a coin.
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