Insecurity And Insecurity And Kidnappinging Nigeria

Insecurity And Insecurity And Kidnappinging Nigeria

Chapter One

Preface

Background To The Study

In the early traditional Nigeria society, mortal immolation eternalized hijacking . Ugwuoke( 2010 197) correctly asserts that individualities were abducted for ritual or social reasons. The African traditional worshipers solely believed in immolating to assuage the gods. The immolation may transcend beast immolation, and the clerk could be inspired by the gods to order for mortal beings; to negotiate this kind of immolation, the needed person could be abducted and killed in a sacrificial procedure. Ugwuoke explained that instability and kidnappingwas substantially for the purpose of immolation either to assuage the gods or for the burial of a prominent chief or legionnaire. Precisely, to carry out a successful burial of important citizen like chiefs and prominent soldiers needed mortal head. Hence, soldiers engaged themselves in hunt of victims to be abducted. Besides Nwadiorah and Nkwocha( 2011 3) observed that the act of instability and kidnappingincreased in Nigeria after the Nigerian civil was in 1970 which exposed numerous youths with military experience to some crime. The below account reveals that instability and kidnappingis veritably old in the history of man as it’s also recorded in section 364 of the Nigeria Criminal Code.

Though instability and kidnappingis not new, and has been in Nigeria felonious statues, rescue instability and kidnappingis a new trend and wasn’t known in Nigeria until lately. also it was egregious in 2006 when it was blazoned that foreign oil painting workers were abducted( Inyang, 2009). still, those deportees were released after paying huge rescue in millions of naira. Since also, instability and kidnappingfor rescue has spread to utmost corridor of Nigerian countries and Imo state Senatorial District is also affected by it. numerous people have been abducted and only released after the payment of rescue while in some cases dead bodies were recovered. Igwe Uche Nwaechime, the owner of Mac Royale hospices ltd, from Nkanu West Local Government, Enugu State was abducted and massacred by the kidnappers. His body was set up by a hunt party at a garbage dump point on the Enugu Port Harcourt express way( Ugwulebo, 2011).Dr. Paul Edemobi, the owner Paul and Grace Foundation and family toProf. Dora Akuyili, was abducted in Enugu on Monday 1st December 2008 from his 10B Savage Cresent GRA Enugu( Ojukwu, 2011). The woman of Sam Ngene, the also Chairman of Enugu South Original Government Area was abducted on March 2009. Also, Nkem Owoh, the popular Nollywood actor was abducted along Enugu- Port Harcourt express way( Ugwulebo, 2011). Payment of rescue, woeful recovery of dead bodies and other data and events as a result of instability and kidnappingshapes peoples perception of the crime. likewise, Anosike( 2009) stated that the prevalence of instability and kidnappingis a common circumstance in the eastern countries. Anosike also noted that countries ranging from Abia to Anambra and Enugu were greatly scarified by the surge of hijacking .

still, in 2009, rebranding design was frenetically directed towards redeeming the image of Nigeria due to the fact that utmost countries of the world and Nigerians themselves perceive Nigerians negatively( Dieye and Iwele, 2011 78). Apropos, in that same 2009 there was rise in instability and kidnappingas available statistics shows that there was 512 prevalence of instability and kidnappingin 2009 against 353 in 2008( Ojukwu, 2011 380). Ojukwu also noted that the minister of the rebranding Nigeria design, Pete Edochie was abducted in Onitsha on his way to his home city- Nteje. Since also, instability and kidnappinghas drastically affected the country’s image and major businesses in the country.

likewise, instability and kidnappingfor rescue trains serious trouble to the well-conditioned ordering and functioning of the society and numerous factors were perceived as its causes. In Nigeria, similar factors include corruption among the Nigeria Police Force( Adibe, 2009), severance, poverty and leadership failure( Diara, 2010), failure of the government to give introductory amenities and the use of cult gangs and zealots by politicians in electoral processes( Okengwu, 2011 1), access to large amounts of small arms and light munitions( 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 instability and kidnappingin Nigeria. There’s no mistrustfulness that instability and kidnappingin Nigeria is in part, a pattern from numerous corridor of the world- Iraq, the Philippines, Afghanistan, India, Russia, Palestinian Territory, Mexico, Nepal and American( Abati, 2009). occurrences of rescue instability and kidnappingin the annals of American history include the case of four time 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 aggravated by wide enterprise, misinformation and periodical arbitrary 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 retainers and labourers, hence, ‘ kid ’ meaning ‘ child ’ and ‘ nap ’ or ‘ nab ’ meaning ‘ to catch ’. Instability and kidnappingwas thus connected to the staling of children but the word has come to be used interchangeably with both children and grown-ups. nonetheless, past account of instability and kidnappingrevealed that death penalty was ordered as a discipline for instability and kidnappingin ancient Rome when the Emperor Constantine( announcement 315) came so terrified by the prevalence of the crime( Akpan, 2010 33).

still, the early African societies were marked with the prevalence of slave trade. In this tone, Ugwu( 2010 2)., asserted that the weak and the poor were captured and vended into slavery. Ugwulebo( 2011 26) noted that during the social period, the colonialists came to some corridor of the world, similar as Africa, took their suitable bodied men and women and vended them to far down nations who demanded mortal labour for their colony and other services.( Onimode as cited in Ugwulebo, 2011 26- 27) had noted that gun greasepaint, gin, mm and other accoutrements were offered by the Europeans to the Africans in exchange for slaves packed

annually from anchorages in Nigeria. thus, slavery and instability and kidnappingwere like two sides of a coin.