Ex-NIA DG: Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis driven by complex network of terrorists, bandits, informants

Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis is being sustained by a complex network of terrorist groups, criminal bandit militias, informants and financial facilitators, former Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ahmed Rufai, has said. Rufai said the motives behind abductions had evolved from fundraising and recruitment to political propaganda and prisoner exchanges, making the