After one of Nigeria’s worst mass kidnappings last week, fifty students have managed to escape their captors and have been reunited with their families. But more than 250 others, including around a dozen staff members, are still being held captive. Ikemesit Effiong is managing partner at SBM Intelligence, a security and risk consultancy firm based in Nigeria. He told The World’s Girish Sawlani that economic incentives could be the motive for the latest surge of kidnappings.
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