Groups, Politicians Task FG on Renewed Abductions

They spoke in separate interviews newsmen.
The Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre Malam Auwal Rafsanjani, said that an effective security system in the country would help to curb the rising spate of kidnappings.
He called for the decentralisation of the Nigeria Police Force to achieve adequate security coverage of the country.
``The Nigeria Police is too central, if it can be decentralised, it will give room for adequate and proper monitoring, surveillance and security of lives and property,’’ he said.
Rafsanjani, however, called on government at all levels, to create more job opportunities for Nigerian youths, who, he claimed, were the ones usually found engaging in the crime.
The National Chairman of the African Renaissance Party, Alhaji Yahaya Ndu, said there was need for the creation of state police.
According to him, this will help to check the challenge of insecurity in parts of the country.
``Creation of state police will go a long way in tackling the security challenges that we are facing.
``And the convocation of a national conference to discuss the way forward for Nigeria will also go a long way,’’ he said.
Ndu urged government to create massive employment opportunities for youths.
The South-West Secretary-General of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Chief Gboyega Adeniji, said that the gap between the rich and the poor in the country needed to be closed.
``The ostentatious lifestyle of the rich, flaunted in the face of abject poverty, is a problem and unless and until this is sorted out, the issue will remain the same,’’ he said.
You’d recall that gunmen, on Monday, kidnapped Alhaja Obedatu Abudu-Balogun, the 72-year-old mother of Mr Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, a House of Representatives member, representing Ijebu North, Ijebu East and Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency.
She was, however, released on Thursday.
Also on Monday, the wife and daughter of a staff of the Federal Psychiatric Hospital at Uselu in Edo were kidnapped in Benin.
Their abductors are demanding N15 million from the family.
Also, in July, a 21-year-old female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi in Edo, was kidnapped and killed four days after by her abductors.
The police have, however, arrested some suspects in connection with the kidnapping of the student.