First Lady recommends death penalty for kidnappers

First Lady recommends death penalty for kidnappers

First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has said kidnappers indulging in abducting women and children deserve to die.

She called on state governors and lawmakers to prescribe capital punishment for any apprehended kidnapper.

The First Lady stated this on Friday during a meeting with the National Women Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja.

She condemned the abduction of 287 pupils of the LEA primary and secondary school in a Kaduna community on Thursday.

Her position is contained in a press statement made available by Busola Kukoyi, her Special Adviser on Media.

The First Lady said the abduction that took place in Kuriga LEA and GSS schools of the Chikun Local Government Area of the state was a direct attack on the future of Nigeria.

Mrs Tinubu described the kidnappers as cowards for taking hold of women and children saying they were inhumane and should be treated as such.

“They are cowards. Our hearts bleed. I call on the state governments that once we take hold of them, they deserve capital punishments. Why can’t they take men of their size, why are they touching women and children,” the First Lady said.

She also said, “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 a 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.”