President Bola Tinubu’s administration has a constitutional mandate to protect the lives and property of Nigerians, but the government continues to let citizens down.

Development Diaries reports that six sisters and their father were abducted in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with one of them killed.

It is understood that the kidnappers demanded N60 million as ransom before killing one of the abductees.

According to a report by Premium Times, the FCT has recorded close to 50 kidnapping cases involving over 200 persons within the last three years. The report also revealed that since the start of 2024, at least 15 people have allegedly been abducted in the FCT. This is alarming.

Section 14 of the 1999 constitution states that the welfare and security of the citizens shall be the primary purpose of government.

Also, the constitution in section 33 provides that every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty in Nigeria.

However, Nigerians continue to witness cases of gross violations of their human rights.

And come to think of it, only recently, Vice President Kashim Shettima assured that the rights of all Nigerians, regardless of their religious and ethnic beliefs, will be protected under the current administration. This appears to be the opposite, as the insecurity situation is getting worse by the day.

In the words of rights organisation, Amnesty International, people resorting helplessly to crowdfunding online to pay ransom to ruthless kidnappers is a stain on Nigeria’s image.

For the part of the security agencies, why do they always fail to track calls and other digital imprints of kidnappers? Even after the completion of the synchronisation of Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) with National Identification Numbers (NINs)?

Is this a rocket science feat that is difficult to achieve?

Development Diaries calls on President Tinubu to order investigations into these waves of kidnapping and killings and bring suspected culprits to justice.

We also demand that the security agencies in Nigeria, including the police, step up efforts in intelligence gathering in the FCT and other Nigerian states.