- Tinubu’s wife said the kidnappers are inhumane for abducting vulnerable women and children and should be treated as such
First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has said the nefarious activities of kidnappers in the country can be checked through promulgation and enforcement of capital punishment for anyone engaging in such heinous act.
The first lady described the kidnappers operating in the country as cowards who deserve to die.
This is even as she decried the latest abduction of 287 students in LEA primary and secondary school Kaduna on Thursday.
The First Lady spoke on Friday during a meeting with the National Women Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja.
In a press statement made available by Busola Kukoyi, her Special Adviser on Media, the First Lady urged the state governments to make abduction punishable by death.
She stated the abduction that took place in Kuriga LEA and GSS schools, in the Chikun local government area of the state was a direct assault on the future of Nigeria.
Tinubu’s wife said the kidnappers are inhumane for abducting vulnerable women and children 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.
“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.”