Edo Lawmakers Okay Death Sentence For Kidnappers

The Edo House of Assembly, on Tuesday, passed the Kidnapping Prohibition Law 2025 and approved death sentence for offenders.

The majority leader of the House, Charity Aiguobarueghian, had earlier moved the motion for the House to resolve into the Committee of the Whole to consider the Baill clause-by-clause.

The motion was seconded by the Minority Leader, Henry Okaka, member representing Owan East constituency.

During the clause-by-clause consideration of the Bill, the lawmakers amended the existing law 2013, which had provided for life imprisonment and confiscation of property allegedly used for kidnapping.

The lawmakers, however, amended the law to provide stiffer penalty of death sentence and confiscation of property used in the act of kidnapping.