A full-blown industry’: Inside Nigeria’s kidnapping economy (Africanews Debates)

The story is no longer just about banditary. In Northern Nigeria, kidnapping has grown into a sophisticated, systematized corporate machine, an economy where human beings are the raw material and ransom is the currency.

That was the stark conclusion drawn by security and governance experts on the December episode of The Africanews Debates. The panel painted a picture of a crisis that has moved beyond random acts of violence to become a…