Nigeria: How Safe is the Federal Capital City?

31 October 2007
analysis

It was on the news not long ago that in a bid to economically emancipate our teeming unemployed youths and also benefit from foreign investment, a Kano based business man invited some of his Middle East business partners to Abuja for discussion on the actualization of the proposal.

Unfortunately that was the night the patriotic citizen's life was extinguished by the men of the under world at Kubwa. That was enough to scare the invited investors out of the country, with the believe that if Abuja the nations capital is not secure no where could be in the whole country. One would not blame these foreigners for their conclusion, because investors weigh the level of risk involved in a business prior to venturing in. As it turned out they did not anticipate the level of violence by armed robbers to be that alarming. They are prone to attacking not only Nigerians but also the foreigners. So long as they are within the country one day it shall also be their turn. Such are the consequences of the rising crime rate in the country.

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