Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday signed a bill into law specifying death penalty for kidnappers, whose victims died in their custody and life imprisonment for act of kidnapping.
The State House of Assembly had on 5 January, 2017 passed the Bill for a Law to Provide for the Prohibition of the Act of Kidnapping and other Connected Purposes, specifying death and life imprisonment penalty for kidnappers.
The law prescribed death sentence for kidnappers whose victims died in their custody and life sentence for kidnappers whose victims came out alive.
The law states that any person who kidnaps, abducts, detains, captures or takes another person by any means or trick, with intent to demand ransom or do anything against the victim’s will, commits an offence.
Signing the bill into law at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on…
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