While nations like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan have so much to show for the rare privilege of having crude oil wells in commercial quantities, our beloved country Nigeria is worse off for the presence of such assets, in our territorial waters.

The analogy being expressed here, where kidnapping and oil well are found in a sentence, does not in any way confer anything good on the description of this violent crime of kidnapping people for ransom or to harvest their organs.

Rather we are trying to say that this violent crime is assuming unimaginable dimensions as the day goes by while the perpetrators are smiling to the bank just as oil and gas subsidy merchants in Nigeria do, at the expense of the nation.

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This poses one of the worst of existential threats to us as a people.

We acknowledge that there has been an unimaginable rise in criminal activities especially in the South East, ever since our brothers started being a bit fierce, in their agitation for secession from the Nigerian State.

This ambition championed by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was fueled by the nonchalant disposition of the federal government, towards the people and development of the Southeast.

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Unfortunately, the people of the South East have paid severely with their blood.

Many writers have consistently wondered how the Nigerian State would have reacted, if a South Easterner pulled the “Yahaya Bello stunt” against the EFCC.

Maybe CIA and MOSSAD would have been invited to hunt the South Easterner down unlike the manner in which the case is no more on the front pages of national dailies.

FRIGHTENING CRIMES IN THE SOUTHEAST.

A Lady who boarded a commercial bus at Brass Junction close to Abia Polytechnic in Aba, Abia State on her way to a destination in Umuahia, only found out hours later, that she had been hypnotized and kidnapped by the same people she thought were her fellow passengers, in connivance with the driver.

In what looked more like a horror film, she found herself in a well-built apartment in a bushy environment, where she saw fellow victims of the kidnappers, who had been hacked to death and their bodies, dismembered.

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Their body parts were being harvested at this facility by the skilled Surgeon who is a member of the team. He operates on people their victims, that have been violently raped and hacked to death.

This kidnap victim was raped violently by members of the kidnap gang, after which they used matchet to stab her from the back. She was bleeding profusely when a member of the kidnap team helped her to escape.

She was later going to find out that the criminality was being executed somewhere in Umuahia, as she looked for a way to escape for her dear life.

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As God would have it, she luckily escaped but unfortunately, she is fighting for her life somewhere in Abia State at this moment. It is our prayer that she does not give up the ghost, while on this struggle as she is badly traumatized.

Owing to the knife stabs at her back which was aimed to hack her to death, her heart is in a very terrible condition, even as the Doctors are doing their best to save her life.

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While one of the members of the kidnapping gang assisted her to escape, she was warned firmly, never to divulge this ugly incident to anyone, as their gang members are highly connected to members of the security agencies. They also boasted of serving the interest of very powerful people in the country and as such, would not be easily apprehended.

Conclusion

This is a security awareness to anyone travelling from a point to another, to please only make use of vehicle at the designated parks where they wish to make the journey from.

While moving around with Keke Napep (Tricycle), be very vigilant while boarding any and same goes for those boarding taxis or public cabs.

The various State governments in the Southeast should please protect the masses from such violent deaths, which is aimed at killing their victims, when ransom is not swiftly paid. The vital organs of these kidnap victims are harvested and sold for commercial purposes. This is how low we have gotten as a people in this nation.

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When next a hospital offers to sell any body part, for transplant to you as a patient, endeavor to ask questions about its source.

Southeastern Governors must build a formidable synergy to combat crime actively while providing jobs for their citizens.