Tag Archives: Kidnapping
Those who closely follow the global effort to #BringBackTheGirls of Chibok, must be greatly puzzled by the very slow response of the Nigerian government to the news of the kidnapping or to ameliorate the plight of the Chibok people. As new Amnesty International information indicates that the military got prior information of the attack and did nothing extra to ward it off and as the world appears to show more care for the Chibok people than its own government, people…..
With the May Day bombing of a bus park in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, coming on the heels of the national and global outcry over the April kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, it must now be clear that Nigeria is at war. But is there enough to show indication that can give Nigerian people hope of victory in the face of these blatant acts of terrorism? I do not think so. More needs to be done to show…..
It was not until over a year after her 2008 kidnapping that I began to accept that my brother’s wife was not going to come home. It took some other family members longer. In the early weeks after she was kidnapped, in the heat of the Niger Delta militancy, we had been involved in a lot of frenetic activity to get her out, negotiating, speaking with the police, militants, etc and there was some progress. Her driver and the friend…..
