STOP KIDNAPPING IN ABIA STATE NIGERIA

Since 2005, Abia state that was formally know as one of the most peaceful states in Nigeria suddenly started experiencing armed Rubbery. Banks, residents and companies being the target of these robbers.

Then from 2008 till date, KIDNAPPING has been the order of the day and Abia state residents now have their hearts on their hands. No single day passes in Aba the commercial city of Abia state and its suburbs without an issue of kidnapping of one person or the other. It has gone to a stage where no one is exceptional or regarded anymore, as even the ELDERLY and KIDS are being kidnapped tortured and abused before they will be released on ransom, some eventually die in the process. On the 9th of September 2010, at Nwogu street, Umungasi, in front of a super store adjacent to Binez hotels Aba, a Foreigner an Indian citizen was murdered in cold blood as he refused to adhere to the command of the kidnappers to come out of his vehicle.

Recently the medical director of Victory Hospital Aba was kidnapped with his wife on their way coming back from the village, they were asked to pay a huge sum of money for their release, their relative and friends gathered some money to pay for their ransom, yet the kidnappers were not satisfied with the amount that they've obtained from this couple, they finally released the Doctor's wife to go and bring more 3million naira which the woman hurriedly went and brought to them, but to her greatest shock, when she demanded that her husband be released to her, the kidnappers told her to go home that she will find her husband on the road, true to their word she found her husband on the road but DEAD!!!

So far so good, the police have tried in their little capacity to halt the situation, but the more they try the more the situation gets worse, as the people involved in the crime are heavily equipped with all sort of arms for their operation.

Businesses have gone down drastically because there are no more patronage. Aba is the commercial town of Abia state and the home of Ariaria International Market, one of the largest manufacturing markets in Nigeria and Africa at large, this market attracts so many patronage from home and abroad, but since these issue of kidnapping and rubbery, investors both existing ones and intending ones are no where to be found as most of them have been the victim of kidnap and rubbery who after paying heavily for their ransom decided to desert the business environment.

If things are left the way it is without action by the federal government, then the aim of having free and fair elections come 2011 will certainly be defeated.