Nigerian police battle a growing kidnapping crisis
Until now kidnappers in Nigeria had targeted public officials, their relatives and foreign workers, often in the oil industry.
Nigeria is in the grip of a kidnapping crisis.
Thousands of Nigerians have fallen victim to a rise in the crime and are having to pay millions of dollars in ransom.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from Kaduna, an area known as a kidnapping hotspot.
Published On 24 Aug 2019