The Nigerian Senate Has Approved The Death Penalty For Kidnappers

Kidnapping is one of the biggest menaces in Nigeria right now. In 2016 alone, Lagos recorded 246 murders with 51 kidnap cases. Going back four years, NYA International, a risk and strategic consulting firm released statistics that showed that Nigeria accounted for 26% of kidnap and ransom incidents globally in the first half of the year. Going by the Criminal Code of Nigeria, Any person who Unlawfully imprisons any person, and takes him out of Nigeria without his consent; or Unlawfully imprisons any person within Nigeria in such a manner as to prevent him from applying to a court for his release or from discovering to any other person the place where he is imprisoned, or in such a manner as to prevent any person entitled to have access to him from discovering the place where he is imprisoned, Is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years. However, the Senate has reversed this decision of imprisonment for ten years to the death sentence for kidnapping, wrongful restraints or wrongful confinement for ransom. This is in a bid to reduce the rate at which kidnapping stories occur in the country.

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