People Are Making Fortune From Insecurity In Nigeria – Ex-US Army Captain Says (Video)

Bish Johnson, a former United States Army captain, has alleged that certain individuals are profiting from the ongoing insecurity in Nigeria.

Johnson made this allegation on Monday during an interview on Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’.

The ex-US Army captain was speaking against the backdrop of the worsening insecurity situation in Nigeria, with people, including women and schoolchildren, being kidnapped and killed.

“Banditry and kidnapping have become a commercialised enterprise where people are making a lot of fortunes over the misfortune of others.

“We are in a country where there is some kind of complicit from within the government. I’ve always insisted and maintained that the most of the security are syndicated operations that involves so many components and so many elements, who are working together for the same purposes, which is commercial reasons.

“Mandatory kidnapping has become a commercialized enterprise where people are making a lot of fortunes over the misfortunes of others.

“While some of them are fueled by unregulated and the illicit mining of our mineral resources, others are fueled by the vulnerabilities in our borders, around that sector between Niger Republic, Chad and the Northern Cameroon.

“So you have influx of all these people, some of the sponsors who may not necessarily be Nigerians, I also believe that there are some foreign sponsors of this crime,” he said.

Banditry and kidnapping have become a commercialised enterprise where people are making a lot of fortunes over the misfortune of others.

- Bish Johnson, Fmr. U.S Army Captain#CTVMorningBrief pic.twitter.com/75ogJTdtVy

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