Lagos Assembly Approves Death Penalty For Kidnappers

BREAKING NEWS

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday approved death sentence for kidnappers, whose victims died in their custody.The approval followed the adoption of a report presented by Mrs Adefunmilayo Tejuosho, the Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary, Petitions, HumanRights and Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC).

Tejuosho had presented the report of a Stakeholders meeting on a bill entitled; “A Bill for a Law to Provide for the Prohibition of the Act of Kidnapping and for Other Connected Purposes”.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reportsthat the bill was sponsored by the Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa.The bill prescribed life sentence to kidnappers, whose victims did not die in their custody.The bill states that any person, who kidnaps, abducts, detains, captures or takes another person by any means or tricks with intent to demand ransom or do anything against his/her will, commits an offence, and liable on conviction to death sentence.