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A new scourge is afflicting the rich富豪们面临新的不安IT COULD not have happened to a more colourful character. Nkem Owoh, a Nollywood film star is famous for a song about financial fraud entitled “I Go Chop Your Dollar”. While driving along a highway in eastern Nigeria earlier this month, he was kidnapped. His abductors originally demanded 15m naira ($99,000). He was freed a week later for an unknown ransom, though the local press say the gang was beaten down to a mere 1.4m naira plus the actor’s fancy car.这本不应发生在一个颇有争议的人物身上。 Nkem owoh，一个诺莱坞(Nollywood)电影明星，以一首讽刺财务欺诈的歌“去抢你的钱（Go Chop Your Dollar）”而出名。 这个月早些时候，当Nkem owoh驾车行走在尼日利亚东部的一条高速公路上时，他被绑架。绑架者最初提出15万奈拉（99,000美元）的赎金要求。一周以后他被释放，赎金不为外人所知。但据当地媒体报道，他付出的赎金仅为14万奈拉，外加他的那辆名贵小汽车。 The abduction sounds like a far-fetched script from one of Nigeria’s popular outlandish films. But kidnapping is a serious business. Nabbing prominent Nigerians is becoming increasingly common, as gangs shift their focus from foreign oil workers to their own rich compatriots.这起绑架案听起来好象是尼日利亚充满异国风味的电影里面的一个蹩脚片段。 但是绑架一个严重的社会问题。 当犯罪团伙转移绑架重点，从绑架外国石油工人转移到绑架他们国内那些富豪时，尼日利亚的社会名流正日益成为他们的绑架对象。An American security firm ranks Nigeria in the world’s top eight kidnapping hotspots, alongside such violent places as Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. According to the State Department, more than 50 foreigners were kidnapped between January 2008 and July this year, most of them in the Delta region, home to Nigeria’s oil industry. Attacks on foreigners were even more frequent in 2007. Insurgents sought ransoms to draw attention to political grievances and to make cash.一家美国保安公司将尼日利亚归类到世界上八个最易发生绑架的热点地区中，这些充满暴力的地方还包括：阿富汗、伊拉克和索马里。 据尼日利亚行政部称，在2008年1月和今年7月之间，共有超过50名外国人被绑架，大多发生在尼日利亚的盛产石油的尼日尔三角洲地区。这些暴徒通过敲诈勒索，表达对国内政治的不满，索取钱物。But, as foreign oil giants such as Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil have tightened security and shifted professional staff out of the Delta, attackers have started looking for softer targets. Nigeria’s authorities are most worried by the spread of kidnapping beyon