The Kogi State Government will soon present to the House of Assembly an
executive bill making kidnapping and other related offences punishable
by death-by-hanging.
The commissioner for information, Hajiya Zainab Okino, who stated this in a statement made available to journalists in Lokoja, weekend, said the move was meant to check the increasing wave of kidnapping in the state
According to the statement, the decision was reached at the meeting of the State Executive Council, in response to “alarming rate” at which citizens of the state were being violently kidnapped by unknown persons in recent times.
“The proposed bill seeks to legalise maximum sentence for any person who kidnaps or abducts or by any other means of instilling fear or tricks, takes another person with intent to demand ransom among other intentions.
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The statement said the bill would recommend death by hanging without option of fine upon conviction when a kidnapped person died in the process and life imprisonment, without an option of fine, for anyone found guilty of aiding and abetting kidnapping.
The bill, said the statement, will also recommend 30 years imprisonment, without an option of fine, for anyone found guilty of attempting to commit an act of kidnapping or abduction in the state
The commissioner for information, Hajiya Zainab Okino, who stated this in a statement made available to journalists in Lokoja, weekend, said the move was meant to check the increasing wave of kidnapping in the state
According to the statement, the decision was reached at the meeting of the State Executive Council, in response to “alarming rate” at which citizens of the state were being violently kidnapped by unknown persons in recent times.
“The proposed bill seeks to legalise maximum sentence for any person who kidnaps or abducts or by any other means of instilling fear or tricks, takes another person with intent to demand ransom among other intentions.
”
The statement said the bill would recommend death by hanging without option of fine upon conviction when a kidnapped person died in the process and life imprisonment, without an option of fine, for anyone found guilty of aiding and abetting kidnapping.
The bill, said the statement, will also recommend 30 years imprisonment, without an option of fine, for anyone found guilty of attempting to commit an act of kidnapping or abduction in the state
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