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This discussion delves into the alarming and frequent abductions of schoolchildren in Nigeria. The hosts explore the key motivations, including the demand for ransom money, and question the effectiveness of the government and security forces' response.

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00:00If it is continuing to happen, what is really being done about it when it comes to the Nigerian government?
00:06And kind of, where does it go if this is just a kind of regular occurrence?
00:12Are schoolchildren constantly at risk?
00:16And why is it happening, Felicity? Presumably ransom money?
00:20Yeah, ransom money is a big reason that they can ask for the extortionate sums of money,
00:27and quite often they're paid because, you know, it's children who are at risk.
00:31But also, you know, it gets attention, maybe slightly less so now,
00:35but it's still, it's such an attention-grabbing horrific crime that, you know,
00:39they know that they're easily going to get attention.
00:41It's also happening because, you know, the Nigerian security forces,
00:48they were criticised in 2014, and it's kind of an ongoing thing of, like, being too slow to respond.
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