Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said the payment of ransom by families of kidnapped victims is fuelling terrorism in Nigeria.
Shehu, who spoke on Channels TV on Monday, said kidnapping would continue until Nigerians stop paying ransoms and allow the security agents to do their job.
He said, “You are mentioning all of these about kidnappers and the people that have been taken and the President even in his Sallah message mentioned an appeal he was making to fellow citizens to expose them (the criminals), tell the security agencies where they are and sometimes you also can sympathise with the family members in that highly emotive situation.
