NIGERIA: WHY I SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAPPERS

in Nigeria, Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, said that he will sign into law the bill meting out capital punishment for kidnappers, once it is passed into law by the State legislature. "I said the other day, we’ll pass a law and the law is still been worked on at the state legislature that anybody who kidnaps, may have to face the death penalty. What is armed robbery? When you take away material things from someone with the use of force. And what is kidnapping? Using force to take away human beings. So why should the punishment for armed robbery be death and the other is not. This is why I told the House of Assembly that kidnapping should be made to attract the death penalty."