That the sudden boom in kidnapping as a business in the country is the new face of slavery and the slave trade is a justifiable proposition. Yes. We do have the coil of slave trading gradually wrapping its new horrid iteration around the necks of Nigerians. We have slavery and the slave trade ongoing in 2021 Nigeria.
Students are being kidnapped for ransom – hundreds of them at once. Kings and chiefs too. Clerics and priests are not exempt. Farmers and innocent travelers are waylaid, led into the bush, and are not released until ransom is paid. The cases keep increasing, the geographical ambit of this criminal business gets wider and the brazenness gets ever dastardlier.
Femi J. Kolapo | Department of History | www.uoguelph.ca/history
A thought for the month:
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Where power is not joined with faith in the future, it is used mainly to ward off the new and preserve the status quo. On the other hand, extravagant hope, even when not backed by actual power, is likely to generate a most reckless daring. For the hopeful can draw strength from the most ridiculous sources of power—a slogan, a word, a button. No faith is potent unless it is also faith in the future; unless it has a millennial component. - Eric Hoffer, The True Believer. Thoughts on the nature of mass movements (Harper Collins, 2002), p.4 |
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