Award-winning Nollywood actress Kehinde Bankole has called on the Federal Government and national intelligence agencies to immediately deploy “full wrath and force” to crush the country’s worsening kidnapping crisis.
Using her social media platform to voice the deep exhaustion of regular citizens, the actress made it clear that Nigerians are completely tired of political rhetoric while lives remain in jeopardy.
“It is no longer about why it is happening; it is now simply about lives! Lives are being lost! This should not be our new normal, children running for their lives in 2026! Oh God,” she wrote.
Bankole directly challenged the familiar political defense that the sudden surge in insecurity is merely a sabotage plot sponsored by opposition elements to discredit the current administration.
She argued that even if sabotage is the driving force, such conspiracy theories should actually compel the state’s security apparatus to react with far greater aggression and urgency.
“Even if the kidnappings are a smear campaign on the government, it should be all the more reason for the Office of the National Security Advisor, along with the Presidency, to tackle insecurity with full wrath and force,” Bankole insisted.
“Find a way! No bigger political campaign. Tactically flush out their “saboteurs” if that exists. That should be the focus now.
“They must make the National Intelligence Agency, the DSS, the Ministry of Defence, and security agencies work! Because enough is enough! The people are tired of condolence speeches and need only bigger action,“ she said.
