Vincent Egunyanga
29 June 2011
Benin — Edo state governor Adams Oshiomhole has promised that the existing law on kidnapping would soon be ammended to make kidnapping punishable by death in the State. The governor who stated this in Benin yesterday when he received members of Edo North Traditional rulers in his office said kidnappers caught in Edo State would be made to face the death penalty if the law on kidnapping is put in place as planned.
Oshiomhole disclosed that the state was planning to amend the law on kidnapping from life imprisonment to death sentence. “We are amending the law on kidnapping to provide adeath sentence. Kidnapping is the worst crime and we have to be ruthless with kidnappers in the same way they treat their victims.”
While blaming the political class for the rise in crime wave in the country, he stated that thugs armed with weapons by the political class for the purpose of elections have to find means of survival after the elections. Oshiomhole, however, praised the State security services and local vigilante group for their efforts in combating kidnappings in the state.
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