Bauchi State approves death sentence for kidnapping
Kidnapping in Bauchi
State is now punishable with death or life imprisonment as Gov. Mohammed
Abdullahi signed into law a bill in that direction.
The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ibrahim
Umar, made this known on Tuesday while briefing newsmen in Bauchi.
He said that Abdullahi also assented to bills on fisheries and
accidents.
Umar said that the governor assented to the bills on Monday.
“Whoever is guilty of the offence of kidnapping shall be punished with
life imprisonment.
“If the victim dies as a result of the kidnapping, the offender shall be
punished with death.
According to Umar, whoever seizes, confines, tricks, abducts or carries
away anybody and holds to ransom or otherwise with or without a weapon,
commits the offence of kidnapping.
Umar said that the state government also signed into law a bill for
provision of free emergency treatment to accident victims within 24
hours of occurrence.
He said that the government would provide for each public hospitals, an
accident and emergency unit, intensive care unit and a blood bank
equipped with personnel and effective communication gadgets.
“The law stated that the state government shall provide funds and
logistics for joint patrol of the hospital management board and Federal
Road Safety Corps for rescuing accident victims in the three senatorial
districts of the state.
“Any government hospital that fails to accept an accident victim shall
have its officers on duty that day punished according to civil service
rules, including reduction in rank,” he said.
He said that the law applied to all accidents including domestic fire,
industrial fire, plane crash, flood disaster, snake bite, dog bite,
rainstorm, bomb blasts and gunshot.
The attorney-general also said that the governor assented to the state
Fisheries and other Related Matters Bill.
According to him, the law is to regulate fisheries in order to promote a
healthy lifestyle and ensure that fishes would be free from
contamination.
It can be recalled that Lagos State has also approved death sentence for
kidnapping.
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode on Feb. 1, assented to the state’s Kidnaping
Prohibition Bill, 2016, which provides for death penalty for kidnappers
whose victims will die in their custody, and life imprisonment for the
act of kidnapping
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