Nigeria's kidnapping industry
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Since December, more than 600 students have been abducted from schools in north-west Nigeria, highlighting a worrying development in the country's kidnap-for-ransom crisis. We'll hear from the father of a returned schoolgirl, about the agony of not knowing what's happened to them. But it's not just schoolgirls. Nigeria is subject to a full-blown kidnapping industry, as Ikemesit Effiong of SBM Intelligence explains. And as the government denies it is paying ransoms, and calls grow for the crisis to be brought under control, Bulama Bukarti of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change explains just why it's so hard to combat the kidnappers.
Producer: Frey Lindsay
(Picture credit: A woman whose 2 daughters were kidnapped by gunmen cries at her home in Zamfara State, northwest of Nigeria, February, 2021. Image Credit: KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, hostage nightmares. |
| 0:07.7 | One father speaks of the emotional scars after his daughter's rescue from kidnapping. |
| 0:13.5 | Anxiety, fear, being with people with the gun shooting. Psychologically, it will last long. |
| 0:22.4 | So is there an economic solution to Nigeria's latest kidnapping crisis? |
| 0:27.5 | There is need for long-term sustained investment in education, job opportunities and other things |
| 0:34.9 | that will strengthen the social contract to take young people away from |
| 0:40.0 | criminality and terrorism. |
| 0:41.8 | That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:49.1 | Disturbing reports are emerging from Nigeria where people are facing a dramatic rise in the number of abductions. |
| 0:57.9 | Hundreds of girls are feared to have been kidnapped in the latest incident. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes, as the news headlines testify, it is becoming an increasingly common ritual, it seems. |
| 1:07.5 | Children grabbed on mass from boarding schools in Nigeria and held for ransom. |
| 1:13.2 | Imagine you were this father lying in bed when your phone starts ringing. |
| 1:17.6 | On 36 of February, after 1 a.m., I received a phone call that a gang of bandits have attacked Government Girls' Secondary School |
| 1:30.3 | and abducted some children. |
| 1:34.8 | My daughter was among the kidnapped student. |
| 1:39.7 | That's Sanusi Gaddo. |
| 1:40.9 | He's the head of the Parent Teacher Association |
| 1:43.3 | at the Government |
| 1:44.5 | Girls Science Secondary School in Zamfara State in northern Nigeria. |
| 1:49.5 | It was a very, very, very traumatized situation. |
| 1:54.3 | Something that I'm not imagined before it was occurrence. |
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