The Former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence John Onaiyekan, has charged the Federal Government to address the insecurity along Abuja/Kaduna road, lamenting that Nigerians who ply that route were now at the mercy of kidnappers who engage in their criminal activities and demand ransom without fear.
Onaiyekan made the call in Abuja on Saturday while briefing journalists on an upcoming conference on “Action Against Irregular Migration of Nigerians” scheduled for May 7.
He said: “On the Abuja/Kaduna road, the government and police have told us several times that they have put up high level security checks and that they have cleared the road but the boys have come up and said that they are still operating on the road.
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“It is sad that the kidnappers operate regularly on the highway and demand ransom and not only that, they go to the extent of collecting the ransom.”
On the issue of irregular migration, the former President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, while acknowledging that migration was a fundamental right of every human being said it should be done according to the laws of any host nation.
He noted that government should be concerned that the nation’s youths engage in irregular migration.
Onaiyekan held that the poverty in the country had made the youths vulnerable in the hands of smugglers and appealed to the Federal Government to address the hardship presently debilitating the country.
