As Nigerians are confronted once again with the kidnap of 275 school kids in Kaduna Thursday, First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has urged lawmakers to enact laws recommending the death penalty for kidnappers.
She said the kidnapping of school children and women is totally unacceptable and issue must be tackled.
Mrs. Tinubu who was speaking Friday during a meeting with the National Women Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja, said:
“They (kidnappers) are cowards. Our hearts bleed. I call on the state governments that once we take hold of them, they deserve capital punishment. Why can’t they take men of their size, why are they touching women and children?
“What they are doing is that they are trying to kill our future, we all know that when parents are old, we rely on our children, we see them as our investments that have not gone to waste especially when they are successful.
“Why will you now take them from their schools? Right now, I think enough is enough. As a former lawmaker, I believe that any one of them captured deserves capital punishment.
“I believe most mothers will support me on this because we carry our children for nine months, and we cannot watch what we love to wither away.”
