Kidnappings-for-ransom continue because groups or syndicates make big money by snatching people and demanding payment for their release, according to Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd.

Roxas on Thursday admitted that the kidnapping problem had not been eradicated because of its “profitability.”

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