Everyone seems to be impressed with the two-kilometre intervals between police outposts along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway.
This re-engineered security apparatus is to reduce the risk of kidnapping along that stretch highway, now that flights have been diverted from Abuja to Kaduna.
But this kind of anti-kidnapping security measure is analogous to the Rube Goldberg approach to solving kidnapping in Nigeria.
The best anti-kidnapping security measure is to mandate our special forces to go after the miscreants in their hideouts, flush them out, and forcefully disrupt their network of operation.
The thinking in some quarters that if President Goodluck Jonathan did not come down forcefully on Fulani kidnappers during his administration, nobody should expect any forceful measure against them at this point, is outmoded and too simplistic.
The proponents of such line of thought would continuously be accused of sympathising with the kidnappers.
Sunday Jonah
Minna, Niger State
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