I've been in very dangerous places, but to be along this route, where a lot of policemen

have been kidnapped in the past, it was really scary for someone like me.

It was the middle of October in 2018, and BBC journalist Kunle Palai was filming for

a documentary called Inside Nigeria's Kidnapping Crisis.

He was cruising his way along one of the most deadly roads in the country, the Abuja

Kaduna Expressway.

That route right now has become so dangerous that the politicians in the country are no longer

applying that road.

Beside him in the car, sat an elite group of police officers who have been tasked with

taking down kidnapping gangs.

These officers were known as the intelligence response team and Kunle have been given

access to their work.

We were there with them every step of the way, and when we successfully found one of the

suspects, one of their marks, we went there together when they were going to arrest him.

That day, they were chasing down a lead when the guy in charge ordered the car to slow

down on this super dangerous road.

If powerful people are moving on an dangerous road, the normal thing is to speed all the

way.

It's sort of like an invasive fatigue.

But I remember that Abakiyari specifically told this man not to vote beyond, I think

50 kilometers per hour.

Abakiyari ran the intelligence response team.

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