{"id":165369,"date":"2019-11-04T18:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165369"},"modified":"2019-11-04T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:45:14","slug":"kidnapping-commercialised-itll-be-hard-to-stop-in-nigeria-says-nyeson-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165369","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapping commercialised, it&#8217;ll be hard to stop in Nigeria, says Nyeson Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wike-Sacks-VC-Deputy-VC-Of-Rivers-State-University.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the commercialisation of kidnapping has made it almost impossible to end the menace.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a visit by Rotary District Governor 9141 Nigeria at the Government House, Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Monday, Governor Wike said since kidnapping was now a business, it can only be reduced to the barest minimum.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is now impossible to stop kidnapping in Nigeria. It is now a business. It has been commercialised. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now a major business. Everyone must partner with the government to ensure that we reduce it to the barest minimum. But it cannot be totally eradicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wike stated that those involved in kidnapping from security reports ranged from 16 to 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cLook at what is happening across the country.  Kidnapping has taken over all states.  When it started here, it was politicised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut today, it is negatively affecting all states of the federation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFew days ago, a Court of Appeal judge was kidnapped in Benin. Before that, a Federal High Court judge was kidnapped. All of us must work together to stop this scourge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State governor urged Rotary Nigeria to embark on enlightenment programmes to ensure that the youth were educated on the dangers of violence and kidnapping.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the commercialisation of kidnapping has made it almost impossible to end the menace. Speaking during a visit by Rotary District Governor 9141 Nigeria at the Government House, Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Monday, Governor Wike said since kidnapping was now a business, it can only be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3,4],"tags":[5713,550,13528],"class_list":["post-165369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-politics","tag-evans","tag-kidnapping","tag-nyeson-wike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}