NUPENG condemns rise in abduction

NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has condemned the current spate of

kidnapping and called for a more scientific and technological approach towards arresting the kidnappers.

  A statement from the union signed by its president, Mr Igwe Achese said that the continuous kidnappings of innocent Nigerians across the country was worrysome.

  The union decried the spate of kidnappings and called on the government and the  appropriate security agencies to be up and doing to stem the tide.

  The union in the statement listed the recent kidnappings of the Regent of Akungba, a Kogi State High Court Judge, a Kogi State serving commissioner and a NAN Correspondent in Imo State.

  It said that others are the Ijaw Youth Council President's junior brother, Eradiri, former President Good-luck Jonathan's two maternal cousins, a Catholic priest in Ekiti State and a living Faith Pastor in Calabar as one too many.

  The statement advised the government to work out strategies that would stop the incessant kidnappings to avoid it being institutionalised adding that the criminal act of kidnapping was portraying the nation in a bad light in the comity of nations and tends to scare away foreign investors and called on the Buhari  administration to give priority to issue of unemployment, noting that if able-bodied men were gainfully employed and kept busy, criminal acts like kidnappings would stop.