This administration, like every myopic corrupt governments, underestimated the significance of the abduction saga. Because the Nigerian government has traditionally abdicated its own responsibility to the Nigerian people, preferring rather to concentrate on the "non stop stealing" of public resources and monumental mismanagement of the economy, with the international community appearing to look the other way or impotent in the collapse of governance in the country, the Nigerian administration failed to acknowledge that the West takes seriously any attack on defenseless targets.
