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It will no longer be a free reign for kidnappers as the Senate has gone tough on them by going for the death penalty. After receiving and debating on a bill on the crime, the Upper House on Thursday approved the death sentence for the offences of abduction, wrongful restraint, or wrongful confinement for a ransom.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osage Ehanire and other stakeholders rejected a provision made in the Bill co-sponsored by the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases and Health Institutions, in Abuja.
According to the minister and others, the piece of legislation duplicates key functions of the National Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, and this to them, is a waste of efforts. The Minister in his submission at a public hearing on the Bill, picked holes in part 6 and other sections of the Bill.
The Ministry also picked loopholes in several other sections duplicating the already statutory functions of the NCDC.
The Southern Governors
The Southern Senators’ Forum has commended steps taken by state governors from the region to stem the rise in insecurity.
The forum disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Secretary General and Publicity Secretary, Senators Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti), Matthew Uroghide (PDP-Edo) and Chukwuka Utazi (PDP-Enugu).
The forum lauded the governors for outrightly taking a firm position on burning national issues, including banning the open grazing of cattle.
The senators said such an unanimous policy would check those hiding under cattle grazing to unleash terror of kidnapping and killing on the residents of the region.