Abia State of Nigeria Again
Abia State of Nigeria, God's Own State. I keep asking if this state is still God's Own State but nobody seems to care about this question.
I do not know when kidnapping that has become a booming business in this state will subside. When the police authorities removed their men from the highways, everybody thought that crime is all over but we were all wrong.
It is possible that the policemen who were on the road and were helping the kidnappers and robbers with ammunition and information may have joined their gangs since they are no longer on the highways to collect 20 Naira notes.
Since this kidnap business started, all classes of people have been kidnapped from children to the aged but the worrisome of all is the kidnap of 14 innocent children who were going to school including their driver and the school bus itself on Monday, 27th September 2010. I hear they are asking for 20 Million Naira ransome. If this could happen to little children like that then nobody is safe again but thank God that they have been released after about a week of hostage.
With the way politics is being played here in Nigeria, majority of the populace believe that most of the things happening in Abia State are being master-minded by the former Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu. These are being done with the sole aim of painting the incumbent Governor, Chief Theodore A. Orji black since they are no longer best of friends or may be to make the Federal Government declare a state of emergency in Abia State. That way, he would have succeeded in removing the incumbent Governor.
Despite the fact that many people say it is like that, it is all about speculation as it is not yet confirmed. Even the Federal Government has already fingered the former Governor considering the power tussle between the two men but no decision has been taken by the Government in that regard at the moment.
Apart from this insinuation, some other people for sure would be involved in this deal because they are busy looking for an opportunity to enter into it and once somebody opens the way for them, they would flood the whole place. People would surely know them but for the fear of attack from them, nobody will talk or report to police because it is the same police that will inform them about who reported them.
Well, I hear that Rivers and Abia State Governments have entered into an agreement on how best to cub the menace and bring it to the bearest minimum. I hope and believe that this will bring it to an end but only God knows if it is possible because the business has gone deep into their marrows.
I am from Abia State and I leave in Port Harcourt but I cannot remember the last time I went home and spent more than 2 hours not to talk of sleeping over just for the sake of my security. I no longer driver my vehicle to my village because if I try it, I should be ready to pay some money to the boys. So each time, I take public transport to and fro.
I am aware of the fact that those who murder sleep would never have peace and it shall be so to those whose have mudered sleep in Abia State of Nigeria, God's Own State. The Lord God of Host shall pass judgement through the land of Abia State in a very short time.
It is time to change for GOOD.
Cheers.
