Sadly, today saw the kidnapping of a 3 year old child (at least the third child to have been kidnapped lately), when Margaret Hill, the three-year old daughter of the manager of Lonestar Drilling, was kidnapped from a car by at least 5 gunmen in Port Harcourt. The unfeeling brutality of these thugs is beyond belief and if the new government is to have the faintest modicum of credibility as the first force for change in this country since independence, they will have to react rapidly and forcefully to show that such acts will never be tolerated and will be severely punished. Anything less will surely show that Nigeria has already passed the point of no return in a spiral of anarchy and complete moral and physical decay
