The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has raised the alarm over the country's rapid descent into structural lawlessness, revealing that Nigeria recorded a staggering record of kidnappings and illicit payments as ransoms in just one year. Citing data attributed to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the distraught youths questioned whether the country's macroeconomic foundation has been completely overtaken by criminal enterprises.