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27.12.2021 news UNVEILED: Pajawiri, Mobile App Tracking Kinappers in Southwest

Published 27th Dec, 2021

By Ibrahim Adeyemi

Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba Nation agitators, has unveiled Pajawiri, a mobile application designed to track kidnappers and their victims in Nigeria’s southwest.

Akintoye, who is the flagbearer of Ilana Omo Oodua, a self-determination group, told reporters in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, that the application will expose kidnappers once victims have it on their phones.

The security-tracking app, which can be downloaded on Playstore, has a variant known as Afinihan, a system that allows non-users of Android phones to link up with others who have downloaded the app on their phones, according to Akintoye.

After joining the event virtually from Benin Republic, he said the emergence of Pajawiri is evidence that the Yoruba people are intellectually sophisticated.

READ ALSO: Boy Escaping From Kidnappers in Edo Ran to Soldiers for Help. ‘But They Killed Him’

“We have now proven to the world that we cannot be captured nor be subdued. We are too intellectually sophisticated to be subdued,” he said, noting that such innovations and intellectual powers would be deployed “to get ourselves out of the quagmires of Nigeria”.

THE GROWING KIDNAPPING BUSINESS IN NIGERIA’S SOUTHWEST

The trade of kidnapping is fast growing in Nigeria’s southwest. From its epicentre in the northwest, kidnapping has become a brutal booming business in the southwest region, and Ondo State is presumed by security analysts as the centre of the organised crime.

With each passing month, kidnappers become more brazing, targeting travellers, women, children, including politicians and powerful people in the region.

Rotimi Akeredolu, the Governor of Ondo State, recently said, “Only the VIPs are safe on our roads”. He said this after his convoy was attacked by suspected kidnappers along the Akure-Ibadan highway.

READ ALSO: Timothy Adegoke’s Brother Escapes ‘Kidnapping Attempt’ in Oyo

Kidnappers now take advantage of the terrible highways in the region to prey on travellers by abducting them and calling their relatives to demand huge ransoms.

FIJ’S FINDINGS

In November, an FIJ reporter spent 17 days undercover in Ondo, Ekiti, and Osun State to track the activities of nomadic herders turned kidnappers in the southwest.

The reporter, who used Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Human Intelligence (HINT) and Satellite Intelligence (SINT), combed the thick forests in the states, supported by local vigilantes and hunters, to uncover some of the hideouts of the criminal gangs.

His report points security operatives to the directions they should look if they are any serious about ending kidnappings. It also warns travellers of routes they need to avoid completely or at least be wary of for their own safety.

READ ALSO: What Kidnapped AAUA Lecturer Said From Captivity

His investigation was spurred by complaints of ordinary citizens of the region who poured thier thoughts after ‘Fisayo Soyombo, a renowned investigative journalist, narrated his experience tracking the abduction of Sola Fagurosi, his bossom friend.

Soyombo had lamented not getting real time interventions from any security agents despite their promises.

“There was no powerful official in the security setup who didn’t hear of this case, but we received no real-time security help,” he said. “Three of us (civilians), our private security and the two volunteers were the ones crisscrossing Ekiti to secure freedom for the captives. In a country that supposedly has a government. In any case, kidnappers are still operating without hindrance in Ekiti.”

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Published 27th Dec, 2021

By Ibrahim Adeyemi

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