Link to Article https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00076946.html
Nigeria has been seeing a lot of kidnapping for ransom over the past couple of months, and the abducting of the school girls is not the first case. In December 2020, more than 344 boys were taken by gunmen and later released after negotiations allegedly between parents and the abductors. And a little more than a week ago the same gunmen who took the 300 girls took 42 people – still missing – at a boarding school in Niger State. The northern part of the country has been increasingly becoming a hub for large criminal gangs who raid villages, killing and abducting residents after looting and torching homes.
Nigeria seems to have a big problem on its hands with these kidnappings and the nigernoan government does not seem to be doing anything about it. It even said in the article that the boys were given back with negotiations with the boys parents, there was no mention of police or military involvement. In fact, there was no mention of the police or military getting involved in the other two cases as well. This brings a huge sense of fear to the people living in Nigeria because these kidnappers are not going to stop kidnapping until they are stopped and no one seems to be trying to stop them.
This goes into the whole idea of international relations on what the United States should or should not get involved in. Obviously a few kidnappings in Nigeria is not going to grab the attention of the United States, they have bigger fish to fry. But it is just sad that Nigerian government is not seeming to be trying to do much to stop these kidnappers. I do not know if they simply just do not have the ability to stop these kidnappers or if they simply just don’t care to intervene. Either way the people who live in these poor countries around the world are on their own and it’s sad.