Report has emerged on a foreign media, the Wall Street Journal, that the Nigerian Government had to buy back an anti-aircraft gun which was seized by bandits while in gun battle with the soldiers at a time.
It was reported.that masked men emerged from the forest on motorbikes, surrounding a young intelligence officer clutching a cash-filled bag. The ransom, nearly $50,000 in crisp Nigerian bank notes, wasn’t for a person, but to retrieve a weapon that directly threatened the country’s president.
A kidnapping gang encamped in Nigeria’s Rugu forest had seized an antiaircraft gun in a clash with a military unit. That posed a threat to President Muhammadu Buhari, who had been planning to fly to his hometown about 80 miles away, and the government needed to buy it back.
Nigeria’s gangs raised millions by kidnapping children.
Now the Government can’t S
stop them. Criminal gangs, flush with ransom money, are growing more brazen, stealing heavy munitions and extorting the government.
police and officials spoke to Nigerian children and adults last week after they were freed from kidnappers in Zamfara state in northern Nigeria.
