Incidence of abduction

BEFORE we could overcome the shock of the gruesome killing of the seven abductees there was yet another abduction in Narayanganj yesterday. And this area has been swarming with law enforcing agencies including several platoons of BGB in the aftermath of the discovery of the seven dead bodies on Wednesday. It seemed as if the abductors were mocking the law enforcers.
We are afraid the state minister for home is totally out of sync with reality when he says that there is nothing to be panicky over the current law and order situation,  and that the number of abductions now is not as high as in the past. We feel it is imprudent to delve into statistics when it has to do with the lives of people.  
The incidence of abduction is unacceptable, and the performance of the law enforcing agencies has been extremely shoddy to say the least. And it does little for public morale when one hears comments from police top brasses that the number of abduction in the western world is much more than in Bangladesh. This is at best cynical and at worst out of place. If the number of abductions in the West is high so are the number of arrest and conviction. Can we say the same in our case?  
No government worth the salt can allow such a situation to continue. To our horror the PM indulged in her old habit of blaming the opposition, in her May Day speech on Thursday. The BNP chief returned the favour. Such blame game will not wash with the public. The government cannot shrug its responsibility.