The scourge of kidnapping in Nigeria and its impact on agric.

The scourge of kidnapping is underreported.

It is a full-time business for too many people. Victims of kidnappings have reported that they met several others in the hideouts and these kidnappers would usually go on daily operations to get more victims. How can anyone feel safe knowing that there are people and organizations whose fulltime jobs are to kidnap you for ransom?

What is worse is the impact this has on investment. Our agric sector is now the biggest national embarrassment, in my opinion (since we have solved the embarrassment of exporting oil in order to import petrol).

We are operating so far beneath our potential in agric. We have more potential than so many other countries but we cannot even feed ourselves and we have to import several of the food items we need (from wheat, rice and maize to sugar, tomatoes, palm oil). All thing we can produce ourselves and even export to the world.

If they had our potential, it could be argued that other populations would be among the top 3 agric exporters globally. So, that is an embarrassment.

To add to all that, investment will not come in to our agric sector because who wants to not be able to go to see their investment for fear of being kidnapped?

We need bold big INNOVATIVE plans to address this problem. Are there any such things in the works?