Nasarawa State Governor Engineer Abdullahi Sule says insecurity, particularly kidnapping, has become a national crisis that no region can afford to ignore, insisting that the phenomenon did not originate in the northern Nigeria as widely assumed.
Speaking on Channels Television programme, Sunday Politics, the governor described a recent meeting of Nigeria governors as tense and emotionally charge, reflecting the gravity of the nation’s security challenges.
“We forget that the issue of kidnapping started in the South with the abduction of oil workers, then the people of the North thought it was none of their business. Now it is major problem in the North.
“All of us as Nigerians should work together to eradicate kidnapping from Nigeria. So now, the kidnapping came into Northern Nigeria, so this is what is happening and it would come to an end”.
Governor Sule said the early wave of abduction in the South was driven mainly by financial motive.
He added that the situation began to ease during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan following negotiations and agreements addressing resource control and militancy.
Sule warned against regionalising the current wave of insecurity, stressing that Nigeria must unite to defeat kidnapping nationwide, while expressing optimism that the current crisis would eventually be brought under control.
-9News Nigeria.
