Oluwo Demands Prompt Execution Of Kidnappers

Oba Adewale Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo, has demanded a law prescribing a capital punishment for kidnappers in the country.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the traditional ruler asserted, must, without further delay send a bill to the National Assembly to ensure that kidnappers are executed when they are caught.

The monarch in a statement he released on Thursday in Osogbo, the Osun state capital said this is the only way to curb the menace of kidnapping.

According to him, some kidnappers should be made example of, through the death penalty to serve as a deterrence to other criminal elements carrying out the act.

He said the country will only know ‘peace’ if this is done

Oba Akanbi said: “Let two, three, or four culpable kidnappers taste death, then we will breathe the air of peace. There is no justifiable excuse for injustice.”

“Injustice is only justified when a matching penalty is meted. The change is in action. Let two, three, or four culpable kidnappers taste death, then we will breathe the air of peace.

The traditional ruler assertion comes following President Bola Tinubu order to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to fish out the killers of two traditional rulers in Ekiti state, by suspected kidnappers.

The Onimojo of Imojo Ekiti, Oba Olatunji Olusola; and the Elesun of Esun Ekiti, Oba Babatunde Ogunsola, were killed when they were returning from a meeting in Irele-Ekiti on Monday.

Similarly, suspected kidnappers also abducted some pupils while on their way home from school around the Emure Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday.

The kidnappers have demanded N10 million for each abducted pupil.