‘Kidnapping is a commercialized enterprise,’ Ex-US Army captain, Bish Johnson

Bish Johnson, a former United States Army Captain, has weighed in on the topic of insecurity in Nigeria, claiming that it has become a commercialized enterprise.

While speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Monday, Johnson spoke about the rise in kidnap cases and insecurity in the country. He alleged that people make fortunes from kidnapping and killing others in Nigeria.

“We are in a country where there is some kind of complicit from within the government. I’ve always insisted and maintained that the most of the security are syndicated operations that involves so many components and so many elements, who are working together for the same purposes, which is commercial reasons. Mandatory kidnapping has become a commercialized enterprise where people are making a lot of fortunes over the misfortunes of others,” he stated.

Johnson also spoke about what he thinks is the cause of these attacks, claiming that some of the sponsors of organised crimes are not Nigerians

“While some of them are fueled by unregulated and the illicit mining of our mineral resources, others are fueled by the vulnerabilities in our borders, around that sector between Niger Republic, Chad and the Northern Cameroon.
“So you have influx of all these people, some of the sponsors who may not necessarily be Nigerians, I also believe that there are some foreign sponsors of this crime,” he added.